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Humphrey Jennings

Film Director / Photographer / Screenwriter | * 08/19/1907 († 43, 09/24/1950) | Walberswick (United Kingdom (UK))
Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (19 August 1907 – 24 September 1950) was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation. Jennings was described by film critic and director Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced". ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | War | Drama

Known for these Movies & Shows

The Eighty Days is a short, simple piece which follows an air attack over British soil and the efforts to stop it, leading to the prevention of a new bomb being sent to France. ...

The Eighty Days

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1944 | 14min
 
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British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II. ...

Fires Were Started

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1943 | 3.2/5 | 1h 10min
Drama, War
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In preparation for the celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain, this short film was released to assure British citizens of their nation's place in the world and of their own places within that nat ...

Family Portrait

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1950 | 2.9/5 | 25min
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The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales. ...

The Silent Village

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1943 | 3.4/5 | 36min
Documentary, Drama, History, War
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Movies with Humphrey Jennings as Actor(4)

as Himself, in archive footage2000 Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
1935 BBC: The Voice of Britain
as Albert Goodbody1934 The Glorious Sixth of June
1934 Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs

Movies with Humphrey Jennings as Crew(39)

Directing/Director1950 Family Portrait
Writing/Writer1950 Family Portrait
Directing/Director1949 The Dim Little Island
Production/Producer1949 The Dim Little Island
Directing/Director1948 The Cumberland Story
Directing/Director1946 A Defeated People
Directing/Director1945 Myra Hess
Directing/Director1945 A Diary for Timothy
Directing/Director1944 The Eighty Days
Directing/Director1944 The True Story of Lili Marlene
Writing/Writer1944 The True Story of Lili Marlene
Directing/Director1944 V. 1
Directing/Director1943 The Silent Village
Production/Producer1943 The Silent Village
Directing/Director1943 Fires Were Started
Writing/Writer1943 Fires Were Started
Directing/Director1942 Listen to Britain
Editing/Editor1942 Listen to Britain
Writing/Writer1942 Listen to Britain
Directing/Director1941 Words for Battle
Directing/Director1941 The Heart of Britain
Directing/Director1941 This Is England
Directing/Director1940 Spring Offensive
Directing/Director1940 London Can Take It!
Directing/Director1940 Welfare of the Workers
Directing/Director1939 S.S. Ionian
Directing/Director1939 The First Days
Directing/Director1939 Spare Time
Directing/Director1939 Cargoes
Directing/Director1938 English Harvest
Directing/Director1938 The Farm
Directing/Director1938 Speaking from America
Directing/Director1938 Penny Journey
Directing/Director1938 Making Fashion
Directing/Director1937 Farewell Topsails
Visual Effects/Color Designer1936 The Birth of the Robot
Directing/Director1934 The Story of the Wheel
Directing/Director1934 Post-Haste
Directing/Director1934 Locomotives

Full Name: Humphrey Jennings
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Monday, 08/19 1907 (August) in Walberswick (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Sunday, 09/24 1950 (September) in Poros (aged: 43)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Pembroke College
Humphrey Jennings frequently works together with these people:
Stewart McAllister (8x, Crew)
Stuart Legg (7x, Crew)
Alberto Cavalcanti (6x, Crew)
Ian Dalrymple (4x, Crew)
Jock May (3x, Crew)
Fred Gamage (3x, Crew)
H.E. Fowle (3x, Crew)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (2x, Crew)
John Grierson (2x, Crew)
Harry Watt (2x, Crew)
Quentin Reynolds (2x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:907348, Added: 11/18/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024