Graham Cutts

Graham Cutts
Born	John Henry Graham Cutts 1884 Brighton, Sussex, England
Died	7 February 1958 London, England
Years active	1922–1940

Graham Cutts (1884–1958) was a British film director. One of the leading British directors in the 1920s,b his fellow director A. V. Bramble believed that Gainsborough Pictures had been built on the back of his work. His daughter was actress Patricia Cutts (1926–1974). Cutts worked with many leading figures in the UK film and stage world, including Basil Dean, Alfred Hitchcock, Gracie Fields, Ivor Novello, and Noël Coward.

Selected filmography

• The Wonderful Story (1922)
• Cocaine (1922)
• Flames of Passion (1922)
• Woman to Woman (1923) with Alfred Hitchcock as assistant
• The White Shadow (1923) with Hitchcock as assistant
• Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923)
• The Prude's Fall (1924) aka Dangerous Virtue
• The Passionate Adventure (1924)
• The Rat (1925) based on Ivor Novello play
• Die Prinzessin und der Geiger (UK/Germany, 1925) UK title The Blackguard
• The Triumph of the Rat (1926)
• The Sea Urchin (1926)
• Chance the Idol (1927)
• The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927) based on the Noël Coward play
• God's Clay (1928)
• The Return of the Rat (1929)
• The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932)
• Looking on the Bright Side (1932)
• The Temperance Fête (1932)
• Three Men in a Boat (1933)
• Oh, Daddy! (1935)
• Car of Dreams (1935)
• Aren't Men Beasts! (1937)
• Over She Goes (1938)
• Just William (1940)
• She Couldn't Say No (1940)

References

• Low, Racheal. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.

External links

• Graham Cutts at the Internet Movie Database