This Is Your Life: Anthony Kimmins

Captain Anthony KIMMINS OBE (1901-1964)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Captain Anthony Kimmins, actor and film-maker, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the BBC Television Theatre while working on a ‘mock’ film set.

Anthony became a film actor and playwright after serving as a naval officer during the First World War. He wrote and directed several films for British comedian George Formby in the 1930s, but with the outbreak of the Second World War he re-joined the Royal Navy.

He returned to the film industry after the war, producing an eclectic mix of films, such as the psychological thriller Mine Own Executioner, Bonnie Prince Charlie and Mr. Denning Drives North. In the 1950s his work included the Sir Alec Guinness comedy The Captain's Paradise and the children's Smiley series of films.

programme details...

Edition No: 156
Subject No: 157
Broadcast live: Mon 20 Mar 1961
Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 6
Edition: 27

on the guest list...

Cecily Courtneidge
Peter Haigh
Muriel Powell
Lt Gen Sir Brian Kimmins KBE CB - brother
Mrs Senecque
Capt John Ellerton
Betty Kimmins - wife
Diana Beaumont
Capt Howard Clarke
Flt Lt Tommy Rose DFC
Elizabeth Allan
Verena Kimmins - daughter
Barbara Copcutt
Barry Harding
William Monksfield
William Forrester
Miss Barnard
Evelyn Laye
Hugh MacDermott
Walter Fitzgerald

production team...

Researcher: Ronald Vivian
Writer: Robert Stuart
Director: Michael Goodwin
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

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