Mickey Brantford

English actor

Mickey Brantford

Born	Michael Richard Henry Comerford (1911-03-26)26 March 1911 London, England
Died	18 October 1984(1984-10-18) (aged 73) 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.^[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

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)

References

^ 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)
^ "Theatre collections: record view - Special Collections & Archives - University of Kent". www.kent.ac.uk.
^ ^a ^b McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111975 – via Google Books.
^ Pitts, Michael R. (25 January 1991). Famous Movie Detectives II. Scarecrow Press. p. 127. ISBN 9780810823457 – via Internet Archive. mickey brantford sexton blake.