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Bert Wynne
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Herbert Cecil Wynn
- Born:
- 1889-11-15, Battersea, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1971-11-14, Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
A Battersea boy who first saw daylight on 15 November 1889, Bert Wynne swapped the thrum of south-London streets for the flicker of celluloid. Between clapperboards he shaped three now-silent landmarks: the desert-yearning drama *The Call of the East* (1922), the cotton-mill saga *The Manchester Man* (1920), and the shadow-drenched morality tale *The Town of Crooked Ways* (1920). Actor, director—or both at once—he wove his stories, then stepped back into obscurity. Fifty-two years almost to the day after that first November breath, he drew his last in Yeovil, Somerset, on 14 November 1971.
