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Daniel Birt is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Set Decoration British born on 23 june 1907 at Mersham (United-kingdom)

Daniel Birt

Daniel Birt
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 23 june 1907 at Mersham (United-kingdom)
Death 15 may 1955 (at 47 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Daniel Birt (23 June 1907 – 15 May 1955) was an English film director and editor. Birt began his career as an editor in 1932 with an assistant credit on The Lucky Number, and went on to edit twelve films during the 1930s.

World War II brought a career hiatus and Birt did not return to the film industry until the late 1940s, working as supervising editor on the 1947 films Green Fingers and The Ghosts of Berkeley Square before taking on his first directorial role with The Three Weird Sisters (1948), a pseudo-gothic tale set in a decaying Welsh mansion and counting Dylan Thomas among its scriptwriters. This was followed later the same year by No Room at the Inn, a powerful and unsparing film dealing with child cruelty and abuse in an evacuee household during the war. Birt directed a further ten films in the crime/thriller genre between 1949 and his early death, aged 47, in May 1955. He also directed three episodes of the first series of the ITV television drama The Adventures of Robin Hood, which were broadcast posthumously in late 1955. Birt's final film, Laughing in the Sunshine, was also released after his death.

Best films

The Mummy
The Mummy
(2017)
(Set Decoration) Chappie
Chappie
(2015)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Adrian Brunel
Adrian Brunel
(3 films)
Cyril Smith
Cyril Smith
(4 films)
Neill Blomkamp
Neill Blomkamp
(1 films)
Alex Kurtzman
Alex Kurtzman
(1 films)
John Argyle
John Argyle
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Daniel Birt (21 films)

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Director

Third Party Risk
Third Party Risk (1954)
, 1h10
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Simone Silva, Finlay Currie, Jane Asher, Maureen Swanson, Ferdy Mayne
Rating51% 2.586572.586572.586572.586572.58657
While holidaying in Spain, Philip Graham (Bridges) by chance runs into an old wartime RAF colleague Tony Roscoe (Peter Dyneley), now a society photographer. The pair spend some time reminiscing, before Tony is urgently called back to England on business. Tony is required to fly home, so Philip offers to drive Tony's car back from Spain at the end of his holiday. Tony asks him to also pick up an envelope he has left in the hotel safe.
Background
Background (1953)
, 1h23
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Janette Scott, Mandy Miller, Jeremy Spenser
Rating60% 3.0466053.0466053.0466053.0466053.046605
John and Barbie Lomax (Friend and Hobson) have been married for almost 20 years, but the marriage has seemingly reached breaking point. After leaving the army, John has been working hard on making a career for himself as a barrister, which takes up all of his time and attention, leaving him exhausted and irritable. He acts intolerantly and dismissively towards Barbie and their three children, and the marital relationship comes under intolerable strain as the couple argue, bicker and snipe constantly at each other. Realising that the poisoned atmosphere is not good for the children to experience, they agree that in the circumstances divorce is the lesser evil.
Three Steps In The Dark
Three Steps In The Dark (1953)
, 1h1
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair, Sarah Lawson, Elwyn Brook-Jones, John Van Eyssen, Katie Johnson
Rating56% 2.824032.824032.824032.824032.82403
A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gynt), a detective story writer, has to put her theories into practice by solving a real-life murder mystery.
Circumstantial Evidence
Circumstantial Evidence (1952)

Directed by Daniel Birt
Genres Crime
Actors Rona Anderson, Patrick Holt, John Arnatt, Frederick Leister, Ronald Adam, Peter Swanwick
Rating58% 2.9121552.9121552.9121552.9121552.912155
A woman seeks evidence that will give her grounds for divorce from her husband, so she can marry another man.
She Shall Have Murder
She Shall Have Murder (1950)
, 1h30
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Rosamund John, Derrick De Marney, Mary Jerrold, Felix Aylmer, Elizabeth Joyce Heron, Jack Allen

A law office clerk who aspires to be a crime writer, turns into a detective when someone at her work is murdered.
The Interrupted Journey
The Interrupted Journey (1949)
, 1h20
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Ralph Truman, Alexander Gauge
Rating66% 3.33743.33743.33743.33743.3374
John North, a struggling writer, is running away with his mistress. After meeting her in London he is sure they are being followed both in the street and at the railway cafe where they have a cup of tea. Once they are on the train he still can't rid himself of his unease as they sit discussing their new life together. Once she is asleep, North goes out into the corridor to try and gather his thoughts and it is then he again sees the man he believes has been following them. In a fit of panic, North pulls the communication cord and jumps off the train. By chance the train is stopped just a couple of minutes away from his house. When he gets there he finds his wife, Carol, waiting for him as usual, as though nothing were wrong. Feeling a burst of fresh affection for her, he embraces her.
No Room at the Inn
No Room at the Inn (1948)
, 1h22
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Freda Jackson, Joan Dowling, Joy Shelton, Hermione Baddeley, Niall MacGinnis, Harcourt Williams
Rating66% 3.3311953.3311953.3311953.3311953.331195
As part of the mass evacuation of children in the early months of World War II, teenage Mary O'Rane is billeted with Mrs Agatha ('Aggie') Voray in an unthreatened area in the north of England. Mary soon discovers that, behind her respectable front, Mrs Voray forces her evacuee charges (five in all) to live in squalor and semi-starvation while spending the money intended for their upkeep on alcohol and personal fripperies. Yet when Mary is visited by her father, Mrs Voray easily convinces him that Mary's allegations are groundless; to Mary's horror, he ends his visit by accompanying Mrs Voray on a pub crawl. Mary's young schoolteacher, Judith Drave, takes her concerns about the children's welfare to the local authorities but is ignored. Mary, meanwhile, is coaxed into petty crime by her fellow evacuee Norma. Matters come to a head when Mrs Voray goes out for the evening and returns to find that her new hat has been damaged. In an alcohol-fuelled fury, she locks little Ronnie in the coal cellar for the night. In the small hours, Mary and Norma sneak out of bed to release him, leading, in an unexpected turn of events, to Mrs Voray's accidental death.
The Three Weird Sisters
The Three Weird Sisters (1948)
, 1h22
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Raymond Lovell, Nova Pilbeam, Elwyn Brook-Jones
Rating63% 3.190393.190393.190393.190393.19039
The elderly Morgan-Vaughan sisters Gertrude (Price), Maude (Clare) and Isobel (Merrall) live in a decaying and claustrophobic mansion in a Welsh mining village. Gertrude is blind, Maude almost deaf and Isobel crippled by arthritis. The local coal mine out of which the family made their fortune is almost worked-out and its tunnels and shafts are dangerously unstable. When a section of the underground workings collapses catastrophically, destroying a row of local cottages and unsettling the foundations of the mansion, the sisters feel honour-bound to finance repairs but have no capital with which to do so.

Scriptwriter

Third Party Risk
Third Party Risk (1954)
, 1h10
Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Simone Silva, Finlay Currie, Jane Asher, Maureen Swanson, Ferdy Mayne
Roles Writer
Rating51% 2.586572.586572.586572.586572.58657
While holidaying in Spain, Philip Graham (Bridges) by chance runs into an old wartime RAF colleague Tony Roscoe (Peter Dyneley), now a society photographer. The pair spend some time reminiscing, before Tony is urgently called back to England on business. Tony is required to fly home, so Philip offers to drive Tony's car back from Spain at the end of his holiday. Tony asks him to also pick up an envelope he has left in the hotel safe.

Producer

Editor

Angels One Five
Angels One Five (1952)
, 1h38
Directed by George More O'Ferrall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, John Gregson, Harold Goodwin, Veronica Hurst
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.242863.242863.242863.242863.24286
The film begins with a replacement, Pilot Officer T. B. "Septic" Baird (John Gregson), landing his Hawker Hurricane at "Pimpernel" Squadron's airfield. Just as he touches down however, a straggler from an earlier mission taxis across his path. Septic's quick reactions allow him to "leapfrog" the other Hurricane, averting a costly disaster. However, this causes him to crash his replacement plane into the bungalow of Squadron Leader Barry Clinton (Cyril Raymond) at the end of the runway.