Mickey Brantford

Mickey Brantford (26 March 1911 – 18 October 1984) was an English actor and film production manager .^[1][2]

Mickey Brantford was born Michael Richard Henry Comerford into a theatrical family, in London.^[3] He began his career in the silent film era as a popular child actor, and appeared in a series of Sexton Blake shorts as the detective's assistant, Tinker.^[3][4]

Selected filmography

• A Man the Army Made (1917)
• The Game of Life (1922)
• The Sporting Instinct (1922)
• The Knockout (1923)
• This Freedom (1923)
• The Rest Cure (1923)
• Not for Sale (1924)
• Afraid of Love (1925)
• Thou Fool (1926)
• ‘’Mare Nostrum’’ (1926)
• Second to None (1927)
• Carry On (1927)
• The Rolling Road (1927)
• Dawn (1928)
• The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
• Suspense (1930)
• The Stolen Necklace (1933)
• Temptation (1934)
• My Old Dutch (1934)
• Me and Marlborough (1935)
• The Phantom Light (1935)
• My Heart is Calling (1935)
• Strictly Illegal (1935)
• Twice Branded (1936)
• The Last Journey (1936)
• Where There's a Will (1936)
• Darby and Joan (1937)
• The Reverse Be My Lot (1937)

References

1. ^ Born: 26 March 1911, London (1911-03-26). "Mickey Brantford | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
2. ^ "Theatre collections: record view - Special Collections & Archives - University of Kent". www.kent.ac.uk
3. ^ McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111975. – via Google Books.
4. ^ Pitts, Michael R. (25 January 1991). Famous Movie Detectives II. Scarecrow Press. p. 127. ISBN 9780810823457. – via Internet Archive. mickey brantford sexton blake.

Bibliography

• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 48.

External links

• Mickey Brantford at IMDb