Gene Gerrard

{{Short description|British actor (1892–1971)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Gene Gerrard | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|08|31|df=yes}} | birth_place = Clapham, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|06|01|1892|08|31|df=y}} | death_place = Sidmouth, Devon, England | other_names = | occupation = Actor }}

'''Gene Gerrard''' (31 August 1892 – 1 June 1971)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Murphy |first=Robert |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Directors_in_British_and_Irish_Cinema/qzn8DwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Gene+Gerrard+Out+of+the+blue&pg=PA223&printsec=frontcover |title=Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion |date=2019-07-25 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-83871-533-5 |language=en}}</ref> was an English film and stage actor, and occasional film director.<ref>{{cite web|author=Staff|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4edb27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721164225/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4edb27|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 July 2012|title=Gene Gerrard profile|publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk|accessdate=26 October 2015}}</ref> He starred in light musical comedies but returned to his stage career by the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishpictures.com/godfrey/card43.htm|title=Gene Gerrard profile|publisher=Britishpictures.com|accessdate=26 June 2014}}</ref>

He was born '''Eugene O'Sullivan'''<ref name="Clarke">{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=71}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> and began as a cutter in his father's tailoring business in High Holborn, Central London. He became an assistant to ''Mozart'' and made his stage début at the revue at the Alhambra Theatre of Variety, London in 1910 and his screen début in 1912 for the ''Hepworth Company''. He served in the Great War.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

He is billed as ''"The 'GENIE' of laughter"'' on the poster for ''The Wife's Family'' (1931).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebay.com/itm/1931-MY-WIFE-039-S-FAMILY-BRITISH-MOVIE-HERALD-/360397945594?nma=true&si=P3mvDxr5j9L2NTFgPeQabGyOkXI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557|title=1931 My Wife's Family British Movie Herald|publisher=eBay|date=20 April 2012|accessdate=26 October 2015}}</ref>

==Filmography== '''Actor''' * ''Let's Love and Laugh'' (1931) (His talkie début) * ''Out of the Blue'' (1931), also director<ref>{{Cite book |last=Richards |first=Jeffrey |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_Age_of_the_Dream_Palace/vF-JDwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Gene+Gerrard+Out+of+the+blue&pg=PA210&printsec=frontcover |title=The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain |date=2009-12-18 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-85771-017-8 |language=en}}</ref> * ''The Wife's Family'' (1931) * ''Brother Alfred'' (1932) * ''Let Me Explain, Dear'' (1932) * ''Lucky Girl'' (1932) * ''The Love Nest'' (1933) * ''Leave It to Me'' (1933) * ''It's a Bet'' (1935) * ''Royal Cavalcade'' (1935) * ''Joy Ride'' (1935) * ''The Guv'nor'' (1935) * ''There Goes Susie'' (1935) * ''No Monkey Business'' (1935) * ''Faithful'' (1936) * ''Such Is Life'' (1936) * ''Where's Sally?'' (1936) * ''Wake Up Famous'' (1937) * ''Glamour Girl'' (1938) * ''Dumb Dora Discovers Tobacco'' (1946)

'''Director''' * ''Out of the Blue'' (1931) * ''Lucky Girl'' (1932) * ''Let Me Explain, Dear'' (1931) * ''Wake Up Famous'' (1937) * ''It's in the Blood'' (1938)

'''Screenwriter''' * ''Let Me Explain, Dear'' (1932) * ''Lucky Girl'' (1932) * ''The Love Nest'' (1933) * ''Leave It to Me'' (1933)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0314705}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gerrard, Gene}} Category:1892 births Category:1971 deaths Category:English male film actors Category:English male stage actors Category:Male actors from London Category:20th-century English male actors