Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-3 of 3
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Humphrey Jennings, born in 1907, was a writer, set designer, painter, editor and, perhaps most famously, a director of ground-breaking documentary films for the renowned GPO film unit: Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943) and A Diary for Timothy (1945), films that changed the face of public service broadcasting. Throughout his life Jennings also worked on his great anthology on the Industrial Revolution and the human imagination, "Pandaemonium". Jennings died while making a film in Greece in 1950; Pandaemonium, a monumental achievement, was finally published in 1985.- Victoria Mountbatten was born on 5 April 1863 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, UK. She was married to Prince Louis of Battenberg. She died on 24 September 1950 in Kensington Palace, London, England, UK.
- Mazhar Khan was born on 5 February 1905 in Dhar, India. He was an actor, known for Sindbad Khalasi (1930), Professor Waman M. Sc. (1938) and Padosi (1941). He died on 24 September 1950.