Biography
Walter Charles Mycroft (1890 β 14 June 1959) was a British journalist, screenwriter, film producer and director. In the 1920s he was film critic of the London Evening Standard, and a founder of the London Film Society, before joining the film industry.
In 1928 he became Literary Adviser and Scenario Editor at the newly founded studio British International Pictures at Elstree, sometimes working with his friend Alfred Hitchcock. He was by his own account the principal author of Hitchcock's first BIP film The Ring (1927), and credited as the author of the original story on which Champagne (1928) was based. Their friendship does not seem to have survived their collaboration.
Mycroft was elevated to head of production at Elstree during the 1930s, during which time BIP was reconstituted as the Associated British Picture Corporation. The company released many films on which Mycroft was credited as producer, with varying levels of actual involvement.
His adopted son, David Rees Mycroft, worked as assistant director on a number of Elstree productions. David Mycroft, who isn't mentioned in Walter Mycroft's autobiography The Time of My Life, edited by Vincent Porter and published posthumously, was an experimental filmmaker, poet and psychologist who studied with R.D. Laing. David Mycroft's daughter Ruth Novaczek is a British experimental film maker.
Filmography
all 89
Movies 89
Producer 69
Writer 15
Director 5
The Woman's Angle (1952)
Comin' Thro the Rye (1947)
The Phantom Shot (1947)
Banana Ridge (1942)
The Farmer's Wife (1941)
Spring Meeting (1941)
Castle of Crimes (1940)
The Flying Squad (1940)
After Mein Kampf (1940)
Just William (1940)
The Middle Watch (1940)
Dead Man's Shoes (1940)
Hell's Cargo (1939)
Just like a Woman (1939)
Lucky to Me (1939)
Poison Pen (1939)
She Couldn't Say No (1939)
Black Eyes (1939)
The Gang's All Here (1939)
The Outsider (1939)
Yes, Madam? (1938)
Queer Cargo (1938)
Hold My Hand (1938)
Black Limelight (1938)
Jane Steps Out (1938)
The Terror (1938)
Oh, Boy! (1938)
Housemaster (1938)
Premiere (1938)
Star of the Circus (1938)
Spring Handicap (1937)
Let's Make a Night of It (1937)
Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
Glamorous Night (1937)
The Dominant Sex (1937)
Aren't Men Beasts! (1937)
Please Teacher (1937)
Someone at the Door (1936)
The Tenth Man (1936)
Once in a Million (1936)
Music Hath Charms (1936)
Invitation To The Waltz (1935)
Honours Easy (1935)
Dance Band (1935)
McGlusky the Sea Rover (1935)
Drake of England (1935)
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Mimi (1935)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)
Radio Parade of 1935 (1934)
The Great Defender (1934)
The Outcast (1934)
Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
What Happened Then? (1934)
I Spy (1934)
My Old Duchess (1934)
The Warren Case (1934)
Lost In The Legion (1934)
A Political Party (1934)
Over the Garden Wall (1934)
Give Her a Ring (1934)
The Luck of a Sailor (1934)
The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934)
A Southern Maid (1934)
The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934)
Blossom Time (1934)
Mister Cinders (1934)
Crime on the Hill (1933)
Red Wagon (1933)
The Love Nest (1933)
Hawleys of High Street (1933)
Love and Luck (1932)
For the Love of Mike (1932)
His Wife's Mother (1932)
Men Like These (1932)
Money for Nothing (1932)
Keepers of Youth (1931)
Gipsy Blood (1931)
Poor Old Bill (1931)
Let's Love and Laugh (1931)
Dreyfus (1931)
The bridegroom's widow (1931)
The Man from Chicago (1930)
Almost a Honeymoon (1930)
Murder! (1930)
The Yellow Mask (1930)
Elstree Calling (1930)
Tesha (1928)
Champagne (1928)
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GenderMale
Birthday1890-01-01
Deathday1959-06-14 (69 years old)
Birth PlaceEngland, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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