Mickey Brantford
Mickey Brantford (26 March 1911 – 18 October 1984) was an English actor and film production manager .[1][2]
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| Born | Michael Richard Henry Comerford 26 March 1911 |
| Died | 18 October 1984 (aged 73) Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Actor & production manager |
Mickey Brantford was born Michael Richard Henry Comerford into a theatrical family, in London.[3] He began his career in the silent film era as a popular child actor, and appeared in a series of Sexton Blake shorts as the detective's assistant, Tinker.[3][4]
Selected filmography
- A Man the Army Made (1917)
- The Game of Life (1922)
- The Sporting Instinct (1922)
- The Knockout (1923)
- This Freedom (1923)
- The Rest Cure (1923)
- Not for Sale (1924)
- Afraid of Love (1925)
- Thou Fool (1926)
- ‘’Mare Nostrum’’ (1926)
- Second to None (1927)
- Carry On (1927)
- The Rolling Road (1927)
- Dawn (1928)
- The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
- Suspense (1930)
- The Stolen Necklace (1933)
- Temptation (1934)
- My Old Dutch (1934)
- Me and Marlborough (1935)
- The Phantom Light (1935)
- My Heart is Calling (1935)
- Strictly Illegal (1935)
- Twice Branded (1936)
- The Last Journey (1936)
- Where There's a Will (1936)
- Darby and Joan (1937)
- The Reverse Be My Lot (1937)
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References
- Born: 26 March 1911, London (1911-03-26). "Mickey Brantford | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
- "Theatre collections: record view - Special Collections & Archives - University of Kent". www.kent.ac.uk.
- McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). "The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
- Pitts, Michael R. (25 January 1991). Famous Movie Detectives II. Scarecrow Press. p. 127 – via Internet Archive.
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Bibliography
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 48.
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