Jack Kitchin

{{Short description|British film editor and producer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Jack Kitchin | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1901 | birth_place = Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, England | death_date = {{Nowrap|5 December {{death year and age|1983|1901}}}} | death_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | other_names = | occupation = Editor and producer | years_active = 1928–1947 }} '''Jack Kitchin''' (1901–1983) was a British film editor and producer. Kitchin worked as editor on over thirty films, and as producer on a further five. He worked in Hollywood for much of his career before returning to Britain where he was employed by Ealing Studios. At Ealing he headed a special unit which made George Formby comedy films.<ref>Richards p.198</ref>

==Selected filmography==

===Editor=== * ''Captain Careless'' (1928) * ''Tropic Madness'' (1928) * ''Dog Justice'' (1928) *''Law of Fear'' (1928) *''Orphan of the Sage'' (1928) * ''Sporting Life'' (1929) * ''A Swift Lover'' (1929) * ''The Yellowback'' (1929) * ''Double Lives'' (1929) * ''The Vagabond Cub'' (1929) * ''The Woman I Love'' (1929) * ''The Pride of Pawnee'' (1929) * ''The Three Brothers'' (1929) * ''Framed'' (1930) * ''Escape'' (1930) * ''Birds of Prey'' (1930) * ''The Lady Refuses'' (1931) * ''Laugh and Get Rich'' (1931) * ''Three Who Loved'' (1931) * ''The Penguin Pool Murder'' (1932) * ''Flying Down to Rio'' (1933) * ''Little Women'' (1933) * ''Melody Cruise'' (1933) * ''Lorna Doone'' (1934) * ''The Show Goes On'' (1937)

===Producer=== * ''Keep Fit'' (1937) * ''It's in the Air'' (1938) * ''Trouble Brewing'' (1939) * ''Come on George!'' (1939) * ''Mine Own Executioner'' (1947)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Richards, Jeffrey. ''The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain''. I.B. Tauris, 2010.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0457681}}

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