Bruce Bairnsfather

Bruce Bairnsfather (1887-1959), born in India to a father who was an officer in the Indian Army, fought in the trenches with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and created there the character of the old soldier Old Bill, whose drawings published in The Bystander made him a very popular caricaturist. The play he drew from it was a triumph in London in 1917. An Ontario company hired him in 1927, first as a screenwriter, then as a director, with no experience of cinema; it was his only film as director. From 1942 to 1944 he became a cartoonist for the American forces, and he died in Worcester.

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• CinemaCarry On, Sergeant!Bruce Bairnsfather · 1928Cinema