# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-purves
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:28:29.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-purves"
name: "Peter Purves"
slug: "peter-purves"
description: "Peter John Purves is an English television presenter and actor. Beginning his career as an actor, he joined Doctor Who to play Steven Taylor, a companion of the First Doctor, which he played from 1965 until 1966. In 1967, he became a presenter on the children's programme Blue Peter, where he remained for eleven years. He has continued to make appearances on TV, including coverage of the Crufts dog show."
tagline: "English actor and television presenter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PeterPurves.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: "1939-02-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.76
  momentum:             2.006861063464837
  historical:           10.45296666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/purves_peter"
    handle:    "purves_peter"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0701007/"
    handle:    "nm0701007"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.peterpurves.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1057958"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Purves"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Purves"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Purves"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Purves"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Purves"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Purves"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Purves"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Питер Первис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Purves"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/29b79309-2d2e-462c-9f14-1dab2b2614a9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2471362"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213425"
    title: "Peter Purves"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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