# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valentine-dyall
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:11:33.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valentine-dyall"
name: "Valentine Dyall"
slug: "valentine-dyall"
description: "Valentine Dyall was an English character actor. Noted for his harsh and deep voice, he worked regularly as a voice actor, and was known for many years as \"The Man in Black\", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear; reprising the role in the 1950 Hammer film The Man in Black."
tagline: "British actor (1908-1985)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Black_Guardian.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1908-05-07"
deathDate: "1985-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.441945333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245581/"
    handle:    "nm0245581"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Dyall"
    title: "Valentine Dyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "فالنتين ديال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Dyall"
    title: "Valentine Dyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Dyall"
    title: "Valentine Dyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "والنتین دایل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Dyall"
    title: "Valentine Dyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Dyall"
    title: "Valentine Dyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/61a4a990-0323-46d2-98cf-d12ffa8af410"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3553646"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47480"
    title: "Valentine Dyall"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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