# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-watkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:38:48.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-watkins"
name: "Peter Watkins"
slug: "peter-watkins"
description: "Peter Watkins was an English filmmaker, documentarian, writer and film theorist. He is known as a pioneer of the docudrama and the mockumentary genres, typically with heavy political content. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrated his works and ideas around the mass media and viewers' relation to and participation in a movie or television documentary."
tagline: "English film director (1935-2025)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/t4MXahz5AJqEHXnZ4cOIORA1sRV.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-10-29"
deathDate: "2025-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.51
  momentum:             4.006944444444445
  historical:           15.75116933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914386/"
    handle:    "nm0914386"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://pwatkins.mnsi.net"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيتر واتكينز (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Watkins"
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    title: "Peter Watkins"
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    title: "Peter Watkins"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Watkins"
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    title: "Փիթեր Վոթքինս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%BC%ED%84%B0_%EC%99%93%ED%82%A8%EC%8A%A4"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уоткинс, Питер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump