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Walter Charles Mycroft (1890 – 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.
Walter C. Mycroft was born on 4 April 1890 in Camberwell, London, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Three Wise Brides (1941), Banana Ridge (1942) and My Wife's Family (1941). He died on 12 June 1959 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
- Producer, Writer, Production Manager
- April 4, 1890
- Walter C. Mycroft
- June 12, 1959
Walter Charles Mycroft was a British novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He was born in 1890 in Camberwell, London, to journalist Walter Thomas Mycroft and his wife Rosland Agnes. Afflicted by a hunched back, Mycroft only grew to 5 foot 4 inches in adult life.
This long-lost memoir, which Mycroft wrote mainly in the 1940s, offers a detailed account of the vagaries and complex economic vicissitudes of British film production in the 1930s.
- W. Mycroft, V. Porter
- 2006
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Film journalist Walter Mycroft (1891-1959) was Britain's most prolific prewar film producer. Written mainly in the 1940s, this memoir offers a detailed account of Mycroft's participation in the British film industry during the 1930s.
Walter Charles Mycroft (1890-1959) was the film critic of the Evening Standard from 1922-1927, and also a founding member of London's Film Society. In 1928, he was appointed Head of the Scenario Department — and then Director of Production — at British International Pictures (later Associated British Pictures).
