{{Short description|British screenwriter and film director (1905–1967)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Gilbert Gunn | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1905|03|24}} | birth_place = Crossmyloof, Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1967|12|6|1905|03|24}} | death_place = Finchley, London, England | othername = | years_active = 1930s–1965 | spouse = Grace | parents = | homepage = }} '''Gilbert Gunn''' (24 March 1905<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web|url=https://artandhue.com/remembering-gilbert-gunn/|title=Remembering Gilbert Gunn |work=Art & Hue |date=2021 |accessdate=24 March 2021}}</ref> – 6 December 1967)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gilbert Gunn |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9ee43f47 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722191812/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9ee43f47 |archive-date=2012-07-22 |website=British Film Institute}}</ref> was a British screenwriter and film director.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gilbert Gunn |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/270 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116094201/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/270 |archive-date=2009-01-16 |website=British Film Institute}}</ref> He was known for his films ''The Elstree Story'' (1952), ''Girls at Sea'' (1958), and ''Operation Bullshine'' (1959).
== Career == Gunn worked as a playwright and theatrical producer in the 1930s, and then joined the Associated British Picture Corporation as screenwriter. In the 1940s he directed over 50 short documentaries for organisations including the Ministry of Information, the Central Office of Information and the British Council.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Brian |title=The Encyclopedia of British Film |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780719091391 |edition=4th |pages=316}}</ref>
==Filmography==
=== Screenwriter === * ''Save a Little Sunshine'' (1938) * ''Me and My Pal'' (1939) * ''The Door with Seven Locks'' (1940) a.k.a. ''Chamber of Horrors'' * ''Landfall'' (1949)
=== Director, short documentaries (partial list) === * ''Royal Observer Corps'' (1941)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal Observer Corps |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060006277 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Birth of a Tank'' (1942)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birth of a Tank |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060006288 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''The Owner Goes Aloft'' (1942)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Owner Goes Aloft |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060021522 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Is Your Journey Really Necessary?'' (1942)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is Your Journey Really Necessary? |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060038846 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Women Away From Home'' (1942)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women Away From Home |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060016335 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Doing Without'' (1943)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Doing Without |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C188963 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Australian War Memorial}}</ref> * ''Firewatch Dog'' (1943)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Firewatch Dog |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060038791 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Canteen Command'' (1943)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Canteen Command |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060005258 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Order of Lenin'' (1943) * ''Tyneside Story'' (1943)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tyneside story |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060006328 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Out Working'' (1944)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Out Working |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060006346 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''The Star and the Sand'' (1945)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Star and the Sand |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060022213 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Routine Job: A Story of Scotland Yard'' (1946)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Routine Job |url=https://film.britishcouncil.org/resources/film-archive/routine-job |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=British Council – Film}}</ref> * ''Country Policeman'' (1946)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Country Policeman |url=https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/0494 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=National Library of Scotland – Moving Image Archive}}</ref> * ''Return to Action'' (1947)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Return to Action |url=https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-return-to-action-1947-online |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=British Film Institute BFI Player}}</ref> * ''The Centuries Between'' (1949)<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 May 1947 |title="The Centuries Between": Gas to the Cotswolds, Evesham Journal |url=https://www.chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk/content/history/campden-on-film/the-centuries-between-gas-to-the-cotswolds |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Chipping Campden History Society}}</ref> * ''Beethoven or Boogie'' (1949)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Beethoven or Boogie |url=https://www.acmi.net.au/works/65298--beethoven-or-boogie/ |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)}}</ref>
=== Director, features === * ''Elstree Story'' (1952), also screenplay * ''Valley of Song'' (1953) * ''The Good Beginning'' (1953) * ''My Wife's Family'' (1956), also co-writer * ''The Mark of the Hawk'' (1957), assistant director<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=The Mark of the Hawk |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150040001 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> * ''Girls at Sea'' (1958) * ''The Strange World of Planet X'' (1958) * ''Operation Bullshine'' (1959), also co-writer * ''What a Whopper'' (1961) * ''Wings of Mystery'' (1963), also co-writer
=== Director, short instructional films ===
* ''Golf For All'' (1965, 7 films)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Filmography. GUNN, Gilbert |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/270?view=credit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126213617/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/270?view=credit |archive-date=26 Jan 2009 |website=British Film Institute}}</ref>
=== Actor === * ''The Farmer's Wife'' (1941) as pub pianist
== Television ==
* ''The Young Detectives'' (1963, 8 episodes)
==References== <references/>
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0348175}}
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