# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-craze
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:25:39.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-craze"
name: "Michael Craze"
slug: "michael-craze"
description: "Michael Francis Craze was a British actor noted for his role of Ben Jackson, a companion of the Doctor, in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He played the part from 1966 to 1967 alongside both William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton."
tagline: "English actor (1942–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Michael_Craze.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: "1942-11-29"
deathDate: "1998-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.35
  momentum:             6.811917222700279
  historical:           10.97577733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187072/"
    handle:    "nm0187072"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craze"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craze"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craze"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craze"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B2"
    title: "مایکل کریز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craze"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craze"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craze"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%B7"
    title: "Мајкл Крејз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craze"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/61ed0bf1-ec9d-4bcc-8565-45800961605e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3275020"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107004"
    title: "Michael Craze"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump