# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-canning
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:06.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-canning"
name: "Victor Canning"
slug: "victor-canning"
description: "Victor Canning was a prolific British writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews."
tagline: "British writer (1911-1986)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Victor_Canning.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-06-16"
deathDate: "1986-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.79
  momentum:             0.8891752577319588
  historical:           9.697086666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134124/"
    handle:    "nm0134124"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Canning"
    title: "Victor Canning"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Canning"
    title: "Victor Canning"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Canning"
    title: "Victor Canning"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Victor Canning"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump