# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-jayston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:15:51.126Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-jayston"
name: "Michael Jayston"
slug: "michael-jayston"
description: "Michael A. James, known professionally as Michael Jayston, was an English actor. He played Nicholas II of Russia in the film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). He also made many television appearances, which included portraying Peter Guillam in the miniseries Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), playing the Valeyard in all fourteen episodes of the Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord (1986), and appearing in the Only Fools and Horses episode \"Time on Our Hands\" (1996) as Raquel's father, James."
tagline: "British actor (1935–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Michael_Jayston_resize.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: "1935-10-29"
deathDate: "2024-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.45
  momentum:             6.988020536223617
  historical:           14.53604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419785/"
    handle:    "nm0419785"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل جیستن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Майкл Джэйстан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jayston"
    title: "Michael Jayston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jayston"
    title: "Michael Jayston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل جیستن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Jayston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מייקל ג'ייסטון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Jayston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jayston"
    title: "Michael Jayston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джейстон, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Jayston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Jayston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29069"
    title: "Michael Jayston"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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