Humphrey Jennings Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Humphrey Jennings, born in 1907, was a writer, set designer, painter, editor and, perhaps most famously, a director of ground-breaking documentary films for the renowned GPO film unit: Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943) and A Diary for Timothy (1945), films that changed the face of public service broadcasting. Throughout his life ...
I have found people extra helpful and extra charming in war time. They are living in a more heightened existence and are much more prepared to open their arms and fall into someone else's. To that extent ... they are better film material, and the emotion that they themselves are feeling is part of the emotion that we indeed are always attempting to use and propagate about life.
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Fact
1
Graduated with a starred First in English from Pembroke College, Cambridge.
2
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 508-513. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
3
Died falling off a cliff while scouting locations for a film.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Changing Face of Europe
1951
Documentary segment "6 "The Good Life"
Family Portrait
1950
Short documentary
The Dim Little Island
1949
Short
The Cumberland Story
1948
Short
A Defeated People
1946
Documentary short
A Diary for Timothy
1945
Short documentary
Myra Hess
1945
Documentary short
The Eighty Days
1944
Documentary
V. 1
1944
Documentary
The True Story of Lilli Marlene
1944
Documentary short
The Silent Village
1943
Documentary short
Fires Were Started
1943
Listen to Britain
1942
Documentary short
This is England
1941
Documentary short
Words for Battle
1941
Documentary short uncredited
The Heart of Britain
1941
Documentary short
Spring Offensive
1940
Documentary short
Welfare of the Workers
1940
Documentary short
London Can Take It!
1940
Documentary short uncredited
Cargoes
1939
Documentary short uncredited
S.S. Ionian
1939
Documentary short
The First Days
1939
Documentary short uncredited
Spare Time
1939
Documentary short
English Harvest
1938
Documentary short
Making Fashion
1938
Documentary short
Penny Journey
1938
Documentary short
Speaking from America
1938
Documentary short
The Farm
1938
Documentary short
Farewell Topsails
1937
Documentary short
The Story of the Wheel
1937
Documentary short
Locomotives
1934
Documentary short
Post-haste
1934
Documentary short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Family Portrait
1950
Short documentary
The Cumberland Story
1948
Short uncredited
Fires Were Started
1943
writer
Listen to Britain
1942
Documentary short uncredited
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Glorious Sixth of June
1934
Short
Postman
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
Short
Grocer (uncredited)
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Birth of the Robot
1936
Short color decor and production - uncredited
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Coal Face
1935
Documentary short additional photography
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Listen to Britain
1942
Documentary short
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Eighty Days
1944
Documentary producer
Set Decorator
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
Short as F.H. Jennings
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Book Four
1985
TV Series in memory of - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Town Meeting of the World
1946
Documentary short
Opening commentary
The True Story of Lilli Marlene
1944
Documentary short
Hans Leip (uncredited)
BBC: The Voice of Britain
1935
Documentary
Himself (voice)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
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