B. E. Doxat-Pratt

Bernard Edwin Doxat-Pratt (1886 – unknown)[1][2] was a British film director who worked for Anglo-Hollandia and Granger-Binger.[2]

Biography

Doxat-Pratt was born in Norwood, Surrey.[3] He served with the Royal Air Force during World War I.

He married Jessie Doxat-Pratt in 1912 and abandoned her a few months later; she divorced him in 1915.[4] He moved to Haarlem in 1920 with his second wife and three children. He divorced in 1929, and was never heard of again by his family, apart from a chance encounter with Norman, his son, in 1940.[2]

He was sent to prison for fraud in 1925 and again in 1927. In 1931, he was sentenced to three months in prison for writing fraudulent checks.[5]

His wife, Ethel,[6] and children Betty,[7] Jack[8] and Norman[9] appeared in several of his films.[2]

Filmography

Year Original title English title Role
1919 Het verborgen leven Hidden Lives advisor
1919 Zonnetje director
1920 De heldendaad van Peter Wells The Little Hour of Peter Wells director
1920 De vrouw van den minister John Heriot's Wife director, writer
1920 Hard tegen hard The Skin Game director, writer
1920 Wat eeuwig blijft Fate's Plaything actor, director
1920 Zooals ik ben As God Made Her director, writer
1920 Zuster Brown Sister Brown director
1921 Een lach en een traan Laughter and Tears (Circus Jim) director
1921 Onder spiritistischen dwang The Other Person director
1922 Bulldog Drummond writer
1922 De Jantjes The Bluejackets director
1927 My Lord The Chauffeur director

References

  1. ^ B.E. Doxat-Pratt at the British Film Institute
  2. ^ a b c d "Bernard Edwin Doxat-Pratt".
  3. ^ 1911 England Census
  4. ^ "Bad in Everyone's Eyes". Weekly Dispatch. 26 December 1915. p. 5. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  5. ^ Registers of Habitual Criminals and Police Gazettes, 1834–1934
  6. ^ "Ethel Doxat-Pratt".
  7. ^ "Betty Doxat-Pratt".
  8. ^ "Jack Doxat-Pratt".
  9. ^ "Norman Doxat-Pratt".