Bernard Edwin Doxat-Pratt (born 1886 in London) [1] [2] was a British film director who worked for Anglo-Hollandia and Granger-Binger. [2]
Doxat-Pratt served with the Royal Air Force during World War I. He moved to Haarlem in 1920 with his second wife and three children. He divorced in 1929, and was never heard of again, apart from a chance encounter with Norman, his son, in 1940. [2]
His wife Ethel [3] and children Betty, [4] Jack [5] and Norman [6] appeared in several of his films. [2]
Year | Original title | English title | Role |
---|---|---|---|
1919 | Het verborgen leven | Hidden Lives | advisor |
1919 | Zonnetje | director | |
1920 | De heldendaad van Peter Wells | The Little Hour of Peter Wells | director |
1920 | De vrouw van den minister | John Heriot's Wife | director, writer |
1920 | Hard tegen hard | The Skin Game | director, writer |
1920 | Wat eeuwig blijft | Fate's Plaything | actor, director |
1920 | Zooals ik ben | As God Made Her | director, writer |
1920 | Zuster Brown | Sister Brown | director |
1921 | Een lach en een traan | Laughter and Tears (Circus Jim) | director |
1921 | Onder spiritistischen dwang | The Other Person | director |
1922 | Bulldog Drummond | writer | |
1922 | De Jantjes | The Bluejackets | director |
1927 | My Lord The Chauffeur | director |
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