# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-franks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:16:27.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-franks"
name: "Philip Franks"
slug: "philip-franks"
description: "Philip Franks is an English actor and director, known to the public chiefly for his roles in English television series, such as The Darling Buds of May and Heartbeat."
tagline: "Actor and theatre director (born 1956)"
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: "1956-02-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.45
  momentum:             17.32249221183801
  historical:           6.73716
  currentAttention:     16.28
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291683/"
    handle:    "nm0291683"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/58835451-9adc-40f6-84fd-eeabae6fb746"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%BE_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "فيليپ فرانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Franks"
    title: "Philip Franks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Franks"
    title: "Philip Franks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Franks"
    title: "Philip Franks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A4_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "פיליפ פרנקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF"
    title: "Фрэнкс, Филипп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2343899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4679850"
    title: "Philip Franks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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