Jack Raymond


Jack Raymond was an English actor and film director. Born in Wimborne, Dorset in 1886, he began acting before the First World War in A Detective for a Day. In 1921, he directed his first film and gradually he wound down his acting to concentrate completely on directing - making more than forty films in total before his death in 1953.
He was associated with the Hepworth Studios of Walton on Thames, since his portrait appears on a studio publicity postcard when he was probably in his early twenties.
He had a major success in 1930 with The Great Game, one of the earliest films devoted to football and followed it up with Up for the Cup a year later. He remade Up for the Cup in 1950.

Partial filmography

Director

  • The Vicar of Wakefield
  • Red, White and Blue Blood
  • The English Rose
  • The Flat
  • A Woman Misunderstood
  • Tilly of Bloomsbury
  • The Curse of Westacott
  • Second to None
  • Lonesome
  • Sally of the Scandals
  • Three Weekends
  • A Peep Behind the Scenes
  • Splinters
  • The Great Game
  • Mischief
  • Almost a Divorce
  • Tilly of Bloomsbury
  • Up for the Cup
  • Life Goes On
  • Say It with Music
  • Up to the Neck
  • It's a King
  • Night of the Garter
  • Girls, Please!
  • Come Out of the Pantry
  • Where's George?
  • Streamline Express
  • The Preview Murder Mystery
  • Talk of the Devil
  • When Knights Were Bold
  • Chick
  • The Frog
  • Blondes for Danger
  • A Royal Divorce
  • You Will Remember
  • Up for the Cup
  • Take Me to Paris
  • ''Reluctant Heroes''

    Actor

  • The Vicar of Wakefield - Moses Primrose
  • The Lights of Home - Mark
  • The English Rose
  • His Other Wife - Dick Riviere
  • The Dinkum Bloke - John Gilder
  • Dope
  • The Only Way - Jacques
  • The Last Command - Assistant Director
  • Up for the Cup - Railway clerk