British stage and film actor and writer, during the middle of the 20th century, part of a British family with a strong stage and theatre tradition spanning several generations. He was the son of character actor and theatrical manager Frederick Kerr and Lucy Dowson. After college, he appeared in several of his father's theatrical productions. (Note: his father was born as Frederick Grinham Keen, the elder son of Grinham Keen, a solicitor. His mother was Lucy Houghton Dowson, married 1894.)
Per Wikipedia: At the start of World War I, he obtained a commission in the Shropshire Light Infantry, and saw duty in the trenches. A friend from his theatre days before the war arranged for him to receive training in the Royal Flying Corps. While serving in that branch of the British military, he was wounded and spent the remainder of the war as an instructor in aerial gunnery. In 1920, he travelled to the United States for the first time to appear with his father on Broadway. From that point on for the remainder of the 1920s, he travelled back and forth across the Atlantic quite often, appearing on Broadway in New York City, and making silent films back home in Britain.
On Broadway, as Geoffrey Kerr, he performed in such plays as The Stork (1925) and London Calling, the latter which he wrote. He also directed occasionally, and co-starred with wife June Walker on Broadway in The Bachelor Father (1928). He ended his acting career in 1934, though he did appear in a play on Broadway in 1949–50, to celebrate the silver Broadway anniversary of the two stars Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
From 1935 until the late 1940s, Kerr was a screenwriter and playwright; he also wrote several British television productions in the early 1950s. His best-known film credits include Rene Clair's Break the News (1938), the wartime comedy/melodrama Cottage to Let (1941), and the period drama Jassy (1947). One of Kerr's screenplays from 1936 resurfaced in 1988 as the British TV production, The Tenth Man.
See IMDB and Wikipedia for a comprehensive filmography and his writing and directing works.
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Per: England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
Name: Geoffrey Kemble G Kerr
Event Type: Death
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1971
Registration District: Aldershot
County: Hampshire
Event Place: Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969): 26 Jan 1895
Volume: 6B
Per Wikipedia: At the start of World War I, he obtained a commission in the Shropshire Light Infantry, and saw duty in the trenches. A friend from his theatre days before the war arranged for him to receive training in the Royal Flying Corps. While serving in that branch of the British military, he was wounded and spent the remainder of the war as an instructor in aerial gunnery. In 1920, he travelled to the United States for the first time to appear with his father on Broadway. From that point on for the remainder of the 1920s, he travelled back and forth across the Atlantic quite often, appearing on Broadway in New York City, and making silent films back home in Britain.
On Broadway, as Geoffrey Kerr, he performed in such plays as The Stork (1925) and London Calling, the latter which he wrote. He also directed occasionally, and co-starred with wife June Walker on Broadway in The Bachelor Father (1928). He ended his acting career in 1934, though he did appear in a play on Broadway in 1949–50, to celebrate the silver Broadway anniversary of the two stars Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
From 1935 until the late 1940s, Kerr was a screenwriter and playwright; he also wrote several British television productions in the early 1950s. His best-known film credits include Rene Clair's Break the News (1938), the wartime comedy/melodrama Cottage to Let (1941), and the period drama Jassy (1947). One of Kerr's screenplays from 1936 resurfaced in 1988 as the British TV production, The Tenth Man.
See IMDB and Wikipedia for a comprehensive filmography and his writing and directing works.
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Per: England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
Name: Geoffrey Kemble G Kerr
Event Type: Death
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1971
Registration District: Aldershot
County: Hampshire
Event Place: Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969): 26 Jan 1895
Volume: 6B
British stage and film actor and writer, during the middle of the 20th century, part of a British family with a strong stage and theatre tradition spanning several generations. He was the son of character actor and theatrical manager Frederick Kerr and Lucy Dowson. After college, he appeared in several of his father's theatrical productions. (Note: his father was born as Frederick Grinham Keen, the elder son of Grinham Keen, a solicitor. His mother was Lucy Houghton Dowson, married 1894.)
Per Wikipedia: At the start of World War I, he obtained a commission in the Shropshire Light Infantry, and saw duty in the trenches. A friend from his theatre days before the war arranged for him to receive training in the Royal Flying Corps. While serving in that branch of the British military, he was wounded and spent the remainder of the war as an instructor in aerial gunnery. In 1920, he travelled to the United States for the first time to appear with his father on Broadway. From that point on for the remainder of the 1920s, he travelled back and forth across the Atlantic quite often, appearing on Broadway in New York City, and making silent films back home in Britain.
On Broadway, as Geoffrey Kerr, he performed in such plays as The Stork (1925) and London Calling, the latter which he wrote. He also directed occasionally, and co-starred with wife June Walker on Broadway in The Bachelor Father (1928). He ended his acting career in 1934, though he did appear in a play on Broadway in 1949–50, to celebrate the silver Broadway anniversary of the two stars Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
From 1935 until the late 1940s, Kerr was a screenwriter and playwright; he also wrote several British television productions in the early 1950s. His best-known film credits include Rene Clair's Break the News (1938), the wartime comedy/melodrama Cottage to Let (1941), and the period drama Jassy (1947). One of Kerr's screenplays from 1936 resurfaced in 1988 as the British TV production, The Tenth Man.
See IMDB and Wikipedia for a comprehensive filmography and his writing and directing works.
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Per: England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
Name: Geoffrey Kemble G Kerr
Event Type: Death
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1971
Registration District: Aldershot
County: Hampshire
Event Place: Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969): 26 Jan 1895
Volume: 6B
Per Wikipedia: At the start of World War I, he obtained a commission in the Shropshire Light Infantry, and saw duty in the trenches. A friend from his theatre days before the war arranged for him to receive training in the Royal Flying Corps. While serving in that branch of the British military, he was wounded and spent the remainder of the war as an instructor in aerial gunnery. In 1920, he travelled to the United States for the first time to appear with his father on Broadway. From that point on for the remainder of the 1920s, he travelled back and forth across the Atlantic quite often, appearing on Broadway in New York City, and making silent films back home in Britain.
On Broadway, as Geoffrey Kerr, he performed in such plays as The Stork (1925) and London Calling, the latter which he wrote. He also directed occasionally, and co-starred with wife June Walker on Broadway in The Bachelor Father (1928). He ended his acting career in 1934, though he did appear in a play on Broadway in 1949–50, to celebrate the silver Broadway anniversary of the two stars Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
From 1935 until the late 1940s, Kerr was a screenwriter and playwright; he also wrote several British television productions in the early 1950s. His best-known film credits include Rene Clair's Break the News (1938), the wartime comedy/melodrama Cottage to Let (1941), and the period drama Jassy (1947). One of Kerr's screenplays from 1936 resurfaced in 1988 as the British TV production, The Tenth Man.
See IMDB and Wikipedia for a comprehensive filmography and his writing and directing works.
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Per: England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
Name: Geoffrey Kemble G Kerr
Event Type: Death
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year: 1971
Registration District: Aldershot
County: Hampshire
Event Place: Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969): 26 Jan 1895
Volume: 6B
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