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Mickey Brantford
Born
Michael Richard Henry Comerford

(1911-03-26)26 March 1911
Died18 October 1984(1984-10-18) (aged 73)
OccupationActor & 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.[3] 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

References

  1. ^ Born: 26 March 1911, London (26 March 1911). "Mickey Brantford | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Theatre collections: record view - Special Collections & Archives - University of Kent". www.kent.ac.uk.
  3. ^ a b McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111975 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Pitts, Michael R. (25 January 1991). Famous Movie Detectives II. Scarecrow Press. p. 127. ISBN 9780810823457 – via Internet Archive. mickey brantford sexton blake.

Bibliography

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