# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-simons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:53:55.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-simons"
name: "William Simons"
slug: "william-simons"
description: "Clifford William Cumberbatch Simons was a Welsh actor best known for his role as PC Alf Ventress in Heartbeat, a role he played from 1992 to 2010."
tagline: "Welsh actor (1940-2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/William_Simons_as_PC_Alf_Ventress_in_Heartbeat_S16.E8_in_2006.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: "1940-11-17"
deathDate: "2019-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.72
  momentum:             5.1
  historical:           7.245406666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800749/"
    handle:    "nm0800749"
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simons"
    title: "William Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "ويليام سيمونس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simons"
    title: "William Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simons"
    title: "William Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simons"
    title: "William Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simons"
    title: "William Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simons"
    title: "William Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simons"
    title: "William Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3743241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/79930"
    title: "William Simons"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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