Movie - By the Shortest of Heads

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Movie Premier in 1915.

George Formby, Jr. (he following drop the junior) be a jockey at the juncture this photograph was made and it was bordered by that massiveness that he was hired. His father was afterwards performing completed the British music audience segment.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: UK
Languages: English
Locations: Epsom Downs, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: UK:August 1915

In movie played:

George Formby (actor)
Articles:"The Independent on Sunday" (UK), 21 September 2008, Iss. 969, pg. 11, by: Cole Moreton, "Formby fans turn out nice again", "The Daily Express" (UK), 17 March 2004, pg. 11, "Formby is a celebrity, not Kerry."
George's father (George Snr.) was a member of a music hall troupe which included a young Charlie Chaplin and it was George's father's insistence that Charlie should try his luck in the USA., Inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame in 2004., Appears on the back cover of 'Alice in Chains' (qv)' 1995 self-titled album (also known as "Tripod") with a computer edited third leg.
Nick Names:Ukulele George
Death Notes:Preston, Lancashire, England, UK (heart attack)
'George Formby' (qv) be the archetype "cheeky chappie" Northern British satirist. Trained originally inside lay of a jockey, he recurrently appear by the haunch of horseback in his films. Best specified in favour of his buck-toothed grin and his ukelele.
Birth Notes:Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
Magazine Covers:"Radio Pictorial" (UK), 6 May 1938
Other Works:Song: When I'm Cleaning Windows, Starred in "Zip Goes A Million" at the Palace Theatre, London in October 1951, but was forced to leave the show after six months, when he suffered a heart attack.
Birth Name:Booth, George Hoy
Spouse:'Beryl Formby' (qv) (September 1924 - 24 December 1960) (her death)
Death Date:6 March 1961
Birth Date:26 May 1904

Jack Hulcup (actor)

Percy Manton (actor)

Moore Marriott (actor)
Articles:"Classic Images" (USA), November 1999, Iss. 293, pg. 25-26, "Moore Marriott: The Lovable Old Codger"
Death Notes:London, England, UK (pneumonia and heart failure)
Largely forgotten today, clown entertainer Moore Marriott reign incomparable contained by favour of a juncture in the 1930s alongside 'Will Hay' (qv) and 'Graham Moffatt (I)' (qv) in British motion illustration farce. The trio come in the political component of next to happenstance, but it be their audience who insist they reappear equally again and again. Born in 1885, Marriott started stale by the part in plonk of a kid with his dramatic clan. The grave, curly-haired inbred made his debut on film as an babe-in-arms and reportedly made a amount of quiet films for the Hepworth Company, but credit be sketchy. By the 1920s he enjoy churn out a digit of pictures plus _By the Shortest of Heads (1915)_ (qv), _The Monkey's Paw (1923)_ (qv) and _The Gold Cure (1925)_ (qv), sometimes in a head. By the advent of murmur, otherwise, he found his niche playing countrified part of a coagulate folk. He play substantially, much elder than he really was (by at tiniest 20-30 years), and audiences take to his doddering frail scam embrace, and he essayed a host of miscellaneous toothless, mutter coots. Marriott was unbilled in his first showing Hay funniness, _Dandy Dick (1935)_ (qv), but received bill in his subsequent film with Hay, _Windbag the Sailor (1936)_ (qv), where on earth they be amalgamated by the impish, heavyset foil Moffatt. With Marriott playing his eminent glinting on uttermost geezer Jeremiah Harbottle, the having mass appeal trio enduring to insert out such wacky, nonsensical films as _Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)_ (qv), normally deem the highest advantageous of the set, and _Convict 99 (1938)_ (qv). Eventually Hay severed the confederation, prefer to be meditation of as a solo idol. Moffatt and Marriot go on to achieve as a double act a few more times, milk laughs in _Old Bones of the River (1938)_ (qv) and _Where's That Fire? (1940)_ (qv). Marriott support other comedian also in the follow-on years, including 'Arthur Askey' (qv), but he never matched his hasty glory. He die at age 64 in need ever harvest a passionate living form addressees as a solo watercolourist.
Birth Notes:West Drayton, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK
Birth Name:Moore-Marriott, George Thomas
Toothless in real life, Marriott carried around four different sets of false teeth in order to achieve variety in his characters.
Death Date:11 December 1949
Birth Date:14 September 1885

Jack Tessier (actor)

William G.B. Barker (producer)
Birth Notes:London, England, UK
Death Date:6 November 1951
Founder of Ealing Studios., Originally a Commercial Traveller, Pioneer of British Film, he worked as cameraman making a film in 1897 about Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, Founded the Barker Motion Picture Company., In 1920 was the official photographer to the Prince of Wales on his world tour.
Birth Date:1867

Jack Hulcup (writer)

Percy Manton (writer)

Bert Haldane (director)
Birth Name:Simpson, Alfred
Birth Notes:Lancashire, England, UK
Spouse:'Maisie Thornton' (? - ?)
Birth Date:1871