# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-saville
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:49:24.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-saville"
name: "Philip Saville"
slug: "philip-saville"
description: "Philip Saville was a British director, screenwriter and former actor whose career lasted half a century. The British Film Institute's Screenonline website described Saville as \"one of Britain's most prolific and pioneering television and film directors\". His work included 45 contributions to Armchair Theatre (1956–1972) and he won two Best Drama Series BAFTAs for Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986)."
tagline: "British screenwriter (1930–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Saville.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1930-10-28"
deathDate: "2016-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.08
  momentum:             0.3129657228017884
  historical:           7.541402666666666
  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/nm0767697/"
    handle:    "nm0767697"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2540703"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "فيليب سافيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "فيليب سافيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Saville"
    title: "Philip Saville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Saville"
    title: "Philip Saville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Saville"
    title: "Philip Saville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Saville"
    title: "Philip Saville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%BE_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "فلپ سیویل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2086433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107414"
    title: "Philip Saville"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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