The Skipper's Wooing | |
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Directed by | Manning Haynes |
Written by | Lydia Hayward |
Produced by | George Redman |
Starring | Gordon Hopkirk Cynthia Murtagh Johnny Butt |
Production company | Artistic Pictures |
Distributed by | Artistic Pictures |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The Skipper's Wooing is a 1922 British silent comedy film directed by Manning Haynes and starring Gordon Hopkirk, Cynthia Murtagh and Johnny Butt. [1]
Johnny Murtagh is an Irish flat racing trainer and former jockey from Bohermeen, near Navan, Kells, County Meath. As a jockey he won many of the major flat races in Europe, including all the Irish Classics, all the Group 1 Races at Royal Ascot, The Derby, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes and Europe's biggest race the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He was also Irish flat racing Champion Jockey five times. As a trainer, based at stables near Kildare, he has saddled a winner at Royal Ascot and an Irish Classic winner.
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"The Smile Behind the Veil" is the final episode of the 1969 ITC British television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on 13 March 1970 on the ITV and was directed by Jeremy Summers.
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