# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willis-hall
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:49:57.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willis-hall"
name: "Willis Hall"
slug: "willis-hall"
description: "Willis Edward Hall was an English playwright and radio, television and film writer who drew on his working-class roots in Leeds for much of his writing. Willis formed an extremely prolific partnership with his life-long friend Keith Waterhouse producing over 250 works. He wrote plays such as Billy Liar, The Long and the Short and the Tall, and Celebration; the screenplays for Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain; and television programmes including Budgie, Worzel Gummidge and Minder. His passion for musical theatre led to a string of hits, including Wind in the Willows, The Card, and George Stiles' and Anthony Drewe's Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure."
tagline: "English playwright and screenwriter (1929-2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Willis_Hall_by_Lewis_Morley_1960.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-04-06"
deathDate: "2005-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.64
  momentum:             9.560439560439558
  historical:           6.150361333333334
  currentAttention:     53.11355311355311
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0356227/"
    handle:    "nm0356227"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Hall_(dramatavan)"
    title: "Willis Hall (dramatavan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Hall"
    title: "Willis Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ویلیس هال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Hall"
    title: "Willis Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Hall"
    title: "Willis Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Hall"
    title: "Willis Hall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3569123"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111334"
    title: "Willis Hall"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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