Michael Barringer Explained

Michael Barringer (30 July 1885^[1] –) was a British writer, screenwriter and playwright. He also occasionally served as film director, directing four films early in his career.^{[2] [3]} His play Inquest was the first performed at the Windmill Theatre when it opened in 1931.^[4]

He was born in 1884, and died, aged 70, in 1954.

Selected filmography

Writer

• Inquest (1931)
• The Right to Live (1932)
• Double Dealing (1932)
• In a Monastery Garden (1932)
• Frail Women (1932)
• A Tight Corner (1932)
• Murder at Covent Garden (1932)
• I'll Stick to You (1933)
• Cleaning Up (1933)
• The Stickpin (1933)
• Marooned (1933)
• Yes, Madam (1933)
• Strike It Rich (1933)
• That's My Wife (1933)
• On the Air (1934)
• Keep It Quiet (1934)
• Without You (1934)
• The Man I Want (1934)
• A Glimpse of Paradise (1934)
• Crazy People (1934)
• Flat Number Three (1934)
• Passing Shadows (1934)
• Death on the Set (1935)
• The Big Splash (1935)
• That's My Uncle (1935)
• Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle (1935)
• Annie, Leave the Room! (1935)
• The Price of a Song (1935)
• Three Witnesses (1935)
• The Black Mask (1935)
• Rhodes of Africa (1936)
• Fame (1936)
• Gaol Break (1936)
• Mother, Don't Rush Me (1936)
• Cheer Up (1936)
• The Interrupted Honeymoon (1936)
• The Great Barrier (1937)
• Fine Feathers (1937)
• The Angelus (1937)
• Millions (1937)
• Double or Quits (1938)
• Yellow Sands (1938)
• Annie, Leave the Room! (1935)
• The Seventh Survivor (1941)

Director

• The Infamous Lady (1928)
• Q-Ships (1928)
• Down Channel (1929)
• Murder at Covent Garden (1932)

Further reading

• Wagstaffe, Helen (February 17, 1934). "Unsung Scribes of the Talkies". Picturegoer Weekly. p. 8

Notes and References

1. 1939 England and Wales Register
2. Web site: Michael Barringer. IMDb.
3. Web site: Michael Barringer. https://web.archive.org/web/20090119052839/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/14359?view=credit. dead. 2009-01-19.
4. Web site: The Windmill Theatre, Great Windmill Street, London, W.1.