Daniel Birt

Daniel Birt
Born	23 June 1907(1907-06-23) Mersham, Kent, England
Died	15 May 1955(1955-05-15) (aged 47) London, England
Occupation	Film director and editor
Years active	1932 – 1955

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.

Filmography (director)

• 1948: The Three Weird Sisters
• 1948: No Room at the Inn
• 1949: The Interrupted Journey
• 1950: She Shall Have Murder
• 1952: The Night Won't Talk
• 1952: Circumstantial Evidence
• 1953: Three Steps in the Dark
• 1953: Background
• 1954: Burnt Evidence
• 1954: Meet Mr. Malcolm
• 1954: Third Party Risk
• 1956: Laughing in the Sunshine

External links

Daniel Birt at Internet Movie Database

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Name	Birt, Daniel
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Date of birth	23 June 1907
Place of birth	Mersham, Kent, England
Date of death	15 May 1955
Place of death	London, England