# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-roeves
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:51:24.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-roeves"
name: "Maurice Roëves"
slug: "maurice-roeves"
description: "John Maurice Roëves was a British actor. He appeared in over 120 film and television roles, in both the United Kingdom and the United States. His breakthrough performance was as Stephen Dedalus in the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. He was a regular fixture on BBC and BBC Scotland programmes, often portraying what The Guardian called \"tough guys, steely villains or stalwart military figures with directness, authenticity and spiky energy\"."
tagline: "English actor (1937–2020)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3WT7GhYloKzgiizP5pahruFbBOD.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: "1937-03-19"
deathDate: "2020-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.76
  momentum:             1.774441878367975
  historical:           9.820248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0747687/"
    handle:    "nm0747687"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ro%C3%ABves"
    title: "Maurice Roëves"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ro%C3%ABves"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ro%C3%ABves"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4_%EB%A1%9C%EC%9D%B4%EB%B8%8C%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "모리스 로이브스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B7%2C_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
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    title: "Maurice Roëves"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1616520"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Maurice Roëves"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump