# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-sheard
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:55:33.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-sheard"
name: "Michael Sheard"
slug: "michael-sheard"
description: "Michael Sheard was a Scottish actor who featured in many films and television programmes, and was best known for playing villains. His most prominent television role was as strict deputy headmaster Maurice Bronson in the children's series Grange Hill, which he played between 1985 and 1989. He appeared as Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back (1980)."
tagline: "Scottish actor (1938–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Sheard%2C_PanoptiCon_2003_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1938-06-18"
deathDate: "2005-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.74
  momentum:             4.834275269662627
  historical:           11.39814933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790410/"
    handle:    "nm0790410"
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Мајкл Ширд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "مايكل شيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheard"
    title: "Michael Sheard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheard"
    title: "Michael Sheard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheard"
    title: "Michael Sheard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "مایکل شرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheard"
    title: "Michael Sheard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "マイケル・シェアード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_%EC%89%AC%EC%96%B4%EB%93%9C"
    title: "마이클 쉬어드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheard"
    title: "Michael Sheard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheard"
    title: "Michael Sheard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheard"
    title: "Michael Sheard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1273924"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70417"
    title: "Michael Sheard"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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