Bill Blewitt was a Cornish postman 'discovered' by film-maker Harry Watt and cast in his 1936 film The Saving of Bill Blewitt . The documentary was about the Post Office Savings Bank and featured Blewitt and the villagers of Mousehole in Cornwall. Assistant director Pat Jackson remembered Blewitt's "mesmeric gift of the gab, a glorious Cornish accent, twinkling blue eyes, a grin as broad as 'Popeye' and the charismatic charm of the Celt." [1] Charles Crichton remembered Blewitt as a natural actor and storyteller. [2]
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Blewitt went on to feature in several more films, [3] sometimes as a supporting actor but also playing a major role, such as the father in the 1945 canal docu-drama Painted Boats .
