# Mickey Brantford

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**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](/source/London).[3] He began his career in the silent film era as a popular [child actor](/source/Child_actor), and appeared in a [series of Sexton Blake shorts](/source/Sexton_Blake_(1928_serial)) as the detective's assistant, [Tinker](/source/Sexton_Blake#Blake's_associates).[3][4]

## Selected filmography

- *[A Man the Army Made](/source/A_Man_the_Army_Made)* (1917)
- *[The Game of Life](/source/The_Game_of_Life_(1922_film))* (1922)
- *[The Sporting Instinct](/source/The_Sporting_Instinct)* (1922)
- *[The Knockout](/source/The_Knockout_(1923_film))* (1923)
- *[This Freedom](/source/This_Freedom)* (1923)
- *[The Rest Cure](/source/The_Rest_Cure_(film))* (1923)
- *[Not for Sale](/source/Not_for_Sale_(film))* (1924)
- *[Afraid of Love](/source/Afraid_of_Love_(film))* (1925)
- *[Thou Fool](/source/Thou_Fool)* (1926)
- ‘’[Mare Nostrum](/source/Mare_Nostrum)’’ (1926)
- *[Second to None](/source/Second_to_None_(film))* (1927)
- *[Carry On](/source/Carry_On_(film))* (1927)
- *[The Rolling Road](/source/The_Rolling_Road)* (1927)
- *[Dawn](/source/Dawn_(1928_film))* (1928)
- *[The Burgomaster of Stilemonde](/source/The_Burgomaster_of_Stilemonde)* (1929)
- *[Suspense](/source/Suspense_(1930_film))* (1930)
- *[The Stolen Necklace](/source/The_Stolen_Necklace)* (1933)
- *[Temptation](/source/Temptation_(1934_film))* (1934)
- *[My Old Dutch](/source/My_Old_Dutch_(1934_film))* (1934)
- *[Me and Marlborough](/source/Me_and_Marlborough)* (1935)
- *[The Phantom Light](/source/The_Phantom_Light)* (1935)
- *[My Heart is Calling](/source/My_Heart_is_Calling)* (1935)
- *[Strictly Illegal](/source/Strictly_Illegal)* (1935)
- *[Twice Branded](/source/Twice_Branded)* (1936)
- *[The Last Journey](/source/The_Last_Journey)* (1936)
- *[Where There's a Will](/source/Where_There's_a_Will_(1936_film))* (1936)
- *[Darby and Joan](/source/Darby_and_Joan_(1937_film))* (1937)
- *[The Reverse Be My Lot](/source/The_Reverse_Be_My_Lot)* (1937)

## References

1. Born: 26 March 1911, London (1911-03-26). ["Mickey Brantford | BFI"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090115080231/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/210576). *Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk*. Archived from [the original](http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/210576) on 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2016-12-14.

1. ["Theatre collections: record view - Special Collections & Archives - University of Kent"](https://www.kent.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/theatre/r.php/30647/show.html). *www.kent.ac.uk*

1. McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). [*The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition*](https://books.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&dq=mickey+brantford+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA91). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111975. – via Google Books.

1. Pitts, Michael R. (25 January 1991). [*Famous Movie Detectives II*](https://archive.org/details/famousmoviedetec0000pitt). Scarecrow Press. p. [127](https://archive.org/details/famousmoviedetec0000pitt/page/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](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0105274/) at IMDb

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