# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marshall-lancaster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:45:38.037Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marshall-lancaster"
name: "Marshall Lancaster"
slug: "marshall-lancaster"
description: "Marshall Lancaster is an English former actor. He has appeared in television dramas including Coronation Street, Holby City, The Lakes and Family Affairs. He is best known for playing DC Chris Skelton in the BBC time-travel police dramas, Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, the former set in 1973, and the latter set between 1981 and 1983."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6piKjyiA6THShs3tZbeiKUmSg2V.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1974-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.621029333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484162/"
    handle:    "nm0484162"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://marshalllancasterplastering.wordpress.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مارشال لانكستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارشال لانكستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Lancaster"
    title: "Marshall Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Lancaster"
    title: "Marshall Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8"
    title: "מרשל לנקסטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marshall Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Lancaster"
    title: "Marshall Lancaster"
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    title: "Маршал Ланкастер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2579440"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216098"
    title: "Marshall Lancaster"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump