# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/travers-vale
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:46:58.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/travers-vale"
name: "Travers Vale"
slug: "travers-vale"
description: "Travers Edmund Vale, was an English-born silent film director, theatre impresario, playwright, and actor. Raised primarily in Victoria, Australia, he worked as a photographer, playwright and theatre manager there and in New Zealand prior to his career in film. Early in his career, he was known by the name S. F. Travers Vale under which name he authored his first known play, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1888) which is an adaptation of the 1886 novel of the same name by Fergus Hume. He established his own theatre troupe, The Travers Vale Dramatic Company, which was in residence at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide in 1889 and the Auckland Opera House in New Zealand in 1890."
tagline: "English-born silent film director (1865-1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Travers_Vale_(1a).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: "1865-01-31"
deathDate: "1927-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.72
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.271418666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883920/"
    handle:    "nm0883920"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travers_Vale"
    title: "Travers Vale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travers_Vale"
    title: "Travers Vale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "تراڤيرس ڤال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travers_Vale"
    title: "Travers Vale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travers_Vale"
    title: "Travers Vale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3538193"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1170686"
    title: "Travers Vale"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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