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Humphrey Jennings (1907–1950)

Director | Writer | Actor

Humphrey Jennings, born in 1907, was a writer, set designer, painter, editor and, perhaps most famously, a director of ground-breaking documentary films for the renowned GPO film unit: Listen to Britain, Fires Were Started and A Diary for Timothy, films that changed the face of public service broadcasting. Throughout... See full bio »

Born:

in Walberswick, Suffolk, England, UK

Died:

(age 43) in Poros, Greece
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1951 The Changing Face of Europe (documentary) (segment 6 "The Good Life")
 
1950 Family Portrait (documentary short)
 
1949 The Dim Little Island (short)
 
1947 The Cumberland Story (short)
 
1946 A Defeated People (short)
 
1945 A Diary for Timothy (documentary short)
 
1945 Myra Hess (short)
 
1944 The True Story of Lilli Marlene (short)
 
1944 The Eighty Days
 
1944 V. 1 (documentary)
 
1943 The Silent Village (documentary short)
 
1943 Fires Were Started
 
1942 Listen to Britain (documentary short)
 
1941 The Heart of Britain (documentary)
 
1941 This is England (documentary short)
 
1941 Words for Battle (documentary short)
 
1940 London Can Take It! (documentary short) (uncredited)
 
1940 Spring Offensive (short)
 
1940 Welfare of the Workers (documentary)
 
1939 Cargoes (documentary short)
 
1939 Spare Time (documentary short)
 
1939 S.S. Ionian (documentary short)
 
1939 The First Days (documentary short) (uncredited)
 
1938 English Harvest (documentary short)
 
1938 Making Fashion (short)
 
1938 Penny Journey (documentary)
 
1938 Speaking from America (documentary short)
 
1938 The Farm (documentary short)
 
1937 Farewell Topsails (documentary short)
 
1934 Locomotives (documentary short)
 
1934 Post-haste (documentary short)
 
1934 The Story of the Wheel (documentary short)
 
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1950 Family Portrait (documentary short)
 
1947 The Cumberland Story (short) (uncredited)
 
1943 Fires Were Started (writer)
 
1942 Listen to Britain (documentary short) (uncredited)
 
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1934 Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs (short)
Grocer (uncredited)
 
1934 The Glorious Sixth of June (short)
Postman
 
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1944 The Eighty Days (producer)
 
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1942 Listen to Britain (documentary short)
 
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1936 The Birth of the Robot (short) (color decor and production - uncredited)
 
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1935 Coal Face (documentary short) (additional photography)
 
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1934 Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs (short) (as F.H. Jennings)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
1985 Book Four (TV series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
– Episode #5.3 (1985) (in memory of)
 
Show ShowSelf (2 titles)
1946 Town Meeting of the World (documentary short)
Opening commentary
 
1935 BBC: The Voice of Britain (documentary)
Himself (voice)
 
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2000 Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain (TV documentary)
Himself
 
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Personal Details

Other Works:

Nonfiction book: "Pandaemonium", 1985 (published after his death)

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3 Print Biographies  | See more »

Alternate Names:

F.H. Jennings
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

I have found people extra helpful and extra charming in war time. They are living in a more heightened existence and are much more prepared to open their arms and fall into someone else's. To that extent ... they are better film material, and the emotion that they themselves are feeling is part of the emotion that we indeed are always attempting to use and propagate about life. See more »

Trivia:

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 508-513. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. See more »

Star Sign:

Leo