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His adopted son, David Rees Mycroft, worked as assistant director on a number of Elstree productions. David Mycroft, who isn't mentioned in Walter Mycroft's autobiography The Time of My Life , [2] edited by Vincent Porter and published posthumously, was an experimental filmmaker, poet and psychologist who studied with R.D. Laing .
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Walter Charles Mycroft was a British novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He was born in 1890 in Camberwell, London, to journalist Walter Thomas Mycroft and his wife Rosland Agnes. Afflicted by a hunched back, Mycroft only grew to 5 foot 4 inches in adult life. He started his career as a journalist at the Globe before becoming the fi...
Hitchcock adaptations... 1. Champagne(1928) - writer With Hitchcock... 1. Elstree Calling(1930) - writer 2. Murder!(1930) - writer: adaptation (as Walter Mycroft)
born 1890 in Londonson of Walter Thomas Mycroft (b. 1865)and Agnes Rosalind Mycroft (b. ~1866) néé Heanbrother of Frank Sydney Mycroft (b. ~1892), Dorothy Rosalind Mycroft (b. 1898), Sybil Mycroft (b. ~1903), Phyllis Mycroft (b. 1904)and Muriel Mary Mycroft (b. 1908)died 12/Jun/1959 aged 68 in LondonJump up Birth registered Q4 1890 Camberwell. He was brother to Frank Sydney Mycroft, Dorothy Rosalind Mycroft, Sybil Mycroft, Phyllis Mycroft and Muriel Mycroft.Jump up Marriage registered Q3 1919 Kingston, London. She was born on 10/Jul/1896, the daughter of Robert William Benns and his wife Eliza, and died in 1971 in Hackney.Jump up Apparently David was an adopted child, the son of Walter's sister, Dorothy Rosalind Mycroft (b. 1898).Jump up Strangely, Mycroft appears to have provided a false date of birth to the Aero Club — his index card gives his date of birth as August 1893, rather than 1890. Publicity material from Elstr...His adopted son, David Rees Mycroft worked as assistant director on a number of Elstree productions. David Mycroft, who isn't mentioned in Walter Mycroft's autobiography The Time of My Life , [2] edited by Vincent Porter and published posthumously, was an experimental filmmaker, poet and psychologist who studied with R.D. Laing .
Mycroft was in charge of Elstree Studios, and his adopted son, David Rees Mycroft worked as assistant director on a number of Elstree productions. Walter Mycroft was formerly film critic for the London Evening Standard, and was reportedly the co-author of the script for the early Hitchcock film Champagne.
A mysterious burglary. Political intrigue. And another case for Mycroft Holmes. In the third of David Dickinson's brilliant series of Mycroft Holmes novellas, the brother of Britain's most famous detective is approached by a distraught young aristocrat, the son of the Home Secretary Lord Melrose.
His adopted son, David Rees Mycroft worked as *istant director on a number of Elstree productions. David Mycroft, who isn't mentioned in Walter Mycroft's autobiography The Time of My Life, edited by Vincent Porter and published posthumously, was an experimental filmmaker, poet and psychologist who studied with R.D. Laing. David Mycroft's ...
