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Daniel Birt | |
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| Born | 23 June 1907 |
| Died | 15 May 1955 (aged 47) London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and editor |
| Years active | 1932 – 1955 |
Daniel Birt (23 June 1907 – 15 May 1955) was an English film director and editor. [1]
Birt began his career as an editor in 1932 with an assistant credit on The Lucky Number and went on to edit 12 films during the 1930s. [1] World War II brought a career hiatus and Birt didn't return to the film industry until the late 1940s.
Having worked as supervising editor on Green Fingers and The Ghosts of Berkeley Square , he was given his first directorial assignment in 1947 - The Three Weird Sisters , a pseudo-Gothic tale set in a decaying Welsh mansion. [2] This was followed in 1948 by No Room at the Inn (co-scripted, like the previous film, by Dylan Thomas), a powerful and unsparing film dealing with child cruelty in an evacuee household during the war. [3]
Birt directed a further ten films in the crime/thriller genre, mostly second features, [4] before his early death, aged 47, in May 1955. He also directed three episodes of the first series of the ITV television drama The Adventures of Robin Hood , which were broadcast posthumously in late 1955. Birt's final film, the Anglo-Danish co-production Laughing in the Sunshine, was also released after his death, entering UK general release on 2 January 1956. [5]
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