# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terry-hands
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:06:14.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terry-hands"
name: "Terry Hands"
slug: "terry-hands"
description: "Terence David Hands, was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; he spent 25 years in all with the RSC. He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure and turned it into the most successful theatre in Wales in his seventeen years as Artistic Director. He received several Olivier, Tony and Molière awards and nominations for directing and lighting."
tagline: "English theatre director (1941–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Terry_Hands.png?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: "1941-01-09"
deathDate: "2020-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.235532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359656/"
    handle:    "nm0359656"
sources:
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    title: "Terry Hands"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Terry Hands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Terry Hands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Hands"
    title: "Terry Hands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Terry Hands"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Hands"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975377"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Terry Hands"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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