# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-benson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:10:08.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-benson"
name: "Peter Benson"
slug: "peter-benson"
description: "Peter Henry Benson was a British actor, best known for his role as Bernie Scripps in the ITV television series Heartbeat, a police drama set in the fictional Yorkshire village of Aidensfield during the 1960s. He also had a number of other film and television roles, often playing weak or vacillating characters."
tagline: "British actor (1943-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Benson_by_Allan_Warren.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: "1943-06-13"
deathDate: "2018-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.163614666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072611/"
    handle:    "nm0072611"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benson"
    title: "Peter Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benson_(akteur)"
    title: "Peter Benson (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بيتر بينسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benson_(actor)"
    title: "Peter Benson (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benson"
    title: "Peter Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benson"
    title: "Peter Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benson_(sz%C3%ADnm%C5%B1v%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "Peter Benson (színművész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benson"
    title: "Peter Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3742892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5009"
    title: "Peter Benson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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