Mickey Brantford Explained

Mickey Brantford
Birth Name:	Michael Richard Henry Comerford
Birth Date:	1911 3, df=yes
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Place:	Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation:	Actor & production manager

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. He began his career in the silent film era as a popular child actor, and appeared in a series of Sexton Blake shorts as the detective's assistant, Tinker.^{[3] [4]}

Selected filmography

• A Man the Army Made (1917)
• The Game of Life (1922)
• The Sporting Instinct (1922)
• The Knockout (1923)
• This Freedom (1923)
• The Rest Cure (1923)
• Not for Sale (1924)
• Afraid of Love (1925)
• Thou Fool (1926)
• ‘’Mare Nostrum’’ (1926)
• Second to None (1927)
• Carry On (1927)
• The Rolling Road (1927)
• Dawn (1928)
• The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929)
• Suspense (1930)
• The Stolen Necklace (1933)
• Temptation (1934)
• My Old Dutch (1934)
• Me and Marlborough (1935)
• The Phantom Light (1935)
• My Heart is Calling (1935)
• Strictly Illegal (1935)
• Twice Branded (1936)
• The Last Journey (1936)
• Where There's a Will (1936)
• Darby and Joan (1937)
• The Reverse Be My Lot (1937)

Bibliography

• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 48.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Born: 26 March 1911, London . Mickey Brantford | BFI . https://web.archive.org/web/20090115080231/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/210576 . dead . 2009-01-15 . Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk . 1911-03-26 . 2016-12-14.
2. Web site: Theatre collections: record view - Special Collections & Archives - University of Kent. www.kent.ac.uk.
3. Book: McFarlane, Brian. The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. 16 May 2016. Oxford University Press. 9781526111975. Google Books.
4. Book: Pitts, Michael R.. Famous Movie Detectives II. registration. 127. mickey brantford sexton blake.. 25 January 1991. Scarecrow Press. 9780810823457 . Internet Archive.