Humphrey Jennings

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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 (1942), Fires Were Started (1943) and A Diary for Timothy (1945), films that changed the face of public service broadcasting. Throughout his life ... See full bio »

Born:

August 19, 1907 in Walberswick, Suffolk, England, UK

Died:

September 24, 1950 (age 43) in Poros, Greece

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Known For

Fires Were Started Director

(1943)

The Changing Face of Europe Director

(1951)

The Silent Village Director

(1943)

The Eighty Days Director

(1944)

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Director (32 credits)

1951 The Changing Face of Europe (Documentary) (segment "6 "The Good Life")

1950 Family Portrait (Short documentary)

1949 The Dim Little Island (Short)

1947 The Cumberland Story (Short)

1946 A Defeated People (Documentary short)

1945 A Diary for Timothy (Documentary short)

1945 Myra Hess (Documentary short)

1944 The Eighty Days (Documentary short)

1944 V.1. (Documentary short)

1944 The True Story of Lili Marlene (Documentary short)

1943 The Silent Village (Documentary short)

1943 Fires Were Started

1942 Listen to Britain (Documentary short)

1941 This Is England (Documentary short)

1941 Words for Battle (Documentary short) (uncredited)

1941 The Heart of Britain (Documentary short)

1940 Spring Offensive (Documentary short)

1940 Welfare of the Workers (Documentary short)

1940 London Can Take It! (Documentary short) (uncredited)

1939 Cargoes (Documentary short) (uncredited)

1939 S.S. Ionian (Documentary short)

1939 The First Days (Documentary short) (uncredited)

1939 Spare Time (Documentary short)

1938 Making Fashion (Documentary short)

1938 Penny Journey (Documentary short)

1938 Speaking from America (Documentary short)

1938 The Farm (Documentary short)

1938 English Harvest (Documentary short)

1937 Farewell Topsails (Documentary short)

1937 The Story of the Wheel (Documentary short)

1934 Locomotives (Documentary short)

1934 Post-Haste (Documentary short)

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Writer (4 credits)

1950 Family Portrait (Short documentary)

1947 The Cumberland Story (Short) (uncredited)

1943 Fires Were Started (writer)

1942 Listen to Britain (Documentary short) (uncredited)

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Actor (2 credits)

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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Producer (2 credits)

1944 The Eighty Days (Documentary short) (producer)

1943 The Silent Village (Documentary short) (producer)

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Art department (1 credit)

1936 The Birth of the Robot (Short) (color decor and production - uncredited)

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Camera and Electrical Department (1 credit)

1935 Coal Face (Documentary short) (additional photography)

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Editor (1 credit)

1942 Listen to Britain (Documentary short)

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Set decorator (1 credit)

1934 Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs (Short) (as F.H. Jennings)

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Thanks (1 credit)

1985 Book Four (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)

- Episode #5.3 (1985) ... (in memory of)

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Self (3 credits)

1946 Town Meeting of the World (Documentary short)
Opening commentary

1944 The True Story of Lili Marlene (Documentary short)
Hans Leip (uncredited)

1935 BBC: The Voice of Britain (Documentary)
Self (voice)

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Archive footage (2 credits)

2000 Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1970 Omnibus (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Heart of Britain (1970) ... Self

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Book: "Pandaemonium" (published posthumously).

Publicity Listings:

2 Biographical Movies | 2 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.