Jack Kitchin

Jack Kitchin
Born	1901 Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, England
Died	5 December 1983 (aged 81–82) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation(s)	Editor and producer
Years active	1928–1947

Jack Kitchin (1901–1983) was a British film editor and producer. Kitchin worked as editor on over thirty films, and as producer on a further five. He worked in Hollywood for much of his career before returning to Britain where he was employed by Ealing Studios. At Ealing he headed a special unit which made George Formby comedy films.

Selected filmography

Editor

• Captain Careless (1928)
• Tropic Madness (1928)
• Dog Justice (1928)
• Law of Fear (1928)
• Orphan of the Sage (1928)
• Sporting Life (1929)
• A Swift Lover (1929)
• The Yellowback (1929)
• Double Lives (1929)
• The Vagabond Cub (1929)
• The Woman I Love (1929)
• The Pride of Pawnee (1929)
• The Three Brothers (1929)
• Framed (1930)
• Escape (1930)
• Birds of Prey (1930)
• The Lady Refuses (1931)
• Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
• Three Who Loved (1931)
• The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
• Flying Down to Rio (1933)
• Little Women (1933)
• Melody Cruise (1933)
• Lorna Doone (1934)
• The Show Goes On (1937)

Producer

• Keep Fit (1937)
• It's in the Air (1938)
• Trouble Brewing (1939)
• Come on George! (1939)
• Mine Own Executioner (1947)

Bibliography

• Richards, Jeffrey. The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain. I.B. Tauris, 2010.

External links

• Jack Kitchin at IMDb