# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-battersby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:45.252Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-battersby"
name: "Roy Battersby"
slug: "roy-battersby"
description: "Roy John Battersby was a British television director, known for his work in drama productions such as Between The Lines, Inspector Morse, Cracker and A Touch of Frost. Early in his career, he made documentary features for the BBC programmes Tomorrow's World and Towards Tomorrow. In 2005, his film Red Mercury was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival."
tagline: "British television director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sB3F4oMaZkkeYeno3xkQmggaYAG.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: "1936-04-20"
deathDate: "2024-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.36
  momentum:             2.96038915913829
  historical:           3.102178666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  73
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0061385/"
    handle:    "nm0061385"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "روى باترسبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Battersby"
    title: "Roy Battersby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7372554"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139027"
    title: "Roy Battersby"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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