Michael McCarthy (film director)

Michael McCarthy (27 February 1917 – 7 May 1959) was a British screenwriter and television and film director.^[1] He entered the film industry in 1934 and worked at the Crown Film Unit.^[2] He directed some of the first films for Anglo-Amalgamated.^[3]

He died aged 42, survived by a wife and three children. A Variety obituary said he was "regarded as a director of considerable promise".^[4]

Selected filmography

• Greek Testament (1943) (documentary) - assistant director
• My Learned Friend (1943) - assistant director
• San Demetrio London (1943) - assistant director
• The Halfway House (1944) - assistant director
• While Nero Fiddled (1944) aka Fiddlers Three - assistant director
• The Girl of the Canal (1945) aka Painted Boats (short feature) - story
• Johnny Frenchman (1945) - unit manager
• Feature Story (1949) (short feature) - director
• No Highway in the Sky (1951) - actor
• Assassin for Hire (1951) - director
• Mystery Junction (1951) - director, writer
• Road Sense (1951) (instructional film) - director
• Hunted (1952) - idea
• Crow Hollow (1952) - director
• Wheel of Fate (1953) - actor
• Behind the Headlines (1953) - actor
• Forces' Sweetheart (1953) - actor
• Flannelfoot (1953) - actor
• John of the Fair (1954) - director, writer
• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents (1954–55) - director, writer - including The Awakening (1954)
• Shadow of a Man (1955) - director, additional scenes
• The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955) - director
• It's Never Too Late (1956) - director
• Assignment Foreign Legion (1956–57) (TV series) - director
• The Traitor (1957) aka The Accursed - director, writer
• Wire Service (1957) (TV series) - director
• Sailor of Fortune (1957) (TV series) - director
• Operation Amsterdam (1959) - director, writer