Mickey Brantford

Mickey Brantford
Born	Michael Richard Henry Comerford (1911-03-26)26 March 1911 London, England
Died	18 October 1984(1984-10-18) (aged 73) Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation	Actor & production manager

Mickey Brantford (26 March 1911 – 18 October 1984) was an English actor and film production manager . ^{[1] [2]}

Mickey Brantford was born Michael Richard Henry Comerford into a theatrical family, in London. ^[3] He began his career in the silent film era as a popular child actor, and appeared in a series of Sexton Blake shorts as the detective's assistant, Tinker. ^{[3] [4]}

Selected filmography

• A Man the Army Made (1917)
• The Game of Life (1922)
• The Sporting Instinct (1922)
• The Knockout (1923)
• This Freedom (1923)
• The Rest Cure (1923)
• Not for Sale (1924)
• Afraid of Love (1925)
• Thou Fool (1926)
• ‘’Mare Nostrum’’ (1926)
• Second to None (1927)
• Carry On (1927)
• The Rolling Road (1927)
• Dawn (1928)
• The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
• Suspense (1930)
• The Stolen Necklace (1933)
• Temptation (1934)
• My Old Dutch (1934)
• Me and Marlborough (1935)
• The Phantom Light (1935)
• My Heart is Calling (1935)
• Strictly Illegal (1935)
• Twice Branded (1936)
• The Last Journey (1936)
• Where There's a Will (1936)
• Darby and Joan (1937)
• The Reverse Be My Lot (1937)

References

1. Born: 26 March 1911, London (26 March 1911). "Mickey Brantford | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
2. "Theatre collections: record view - Special Collections & Archives - University of Kent". www.kent.ac.uk.
3. McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9781526111975 – via Google Books.
4. Pitts, Michael R. (25 January 1991). Famous Movie Detectives II . Scarecrow Press. p.  127. ISBN   9780810823457 – via Internet Archive. mickey brantford sexton blake.

Bibliography

• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 48.

External links

• Mickey Brantford at IMDb