Michael McCarthy (film director)
Michael McCarthy was a British screenwriter and television and film director. He entered the film industry in 1934 and worked at the Crown Film Unit. He directed some of the first films for Anglo-Amalgamated. His last film was Operation Amsterdam.
He died aged 42, survived by a wife and three children. A Variety obituary said he was "regarded as a director of considerable promise".
Selected filmography
- Greek Testament - assistant director
- My Learned Friend - assistant director
- San Demetrio London - assistant director
- The Halfway House - assistant director
- While Nero Fiddled aka Fiddlers Three - assistant director
- The Girl of the Canal aka Painted Boats - story
- Johnny Frenchman - unit manager
- Feature Story - director
- No Highway in the Sky - actorAssassin for Hire - directorMystery Junction - director, writer
- Road Sense - director
- Hunted - ideaCrow Hollow - director
- Wheel of Fate - actor
- Behind the Headlines - actor
- Forces' Sweetheart - actor
- Flannelfoot - actor
- John of the Fair - director, writer
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents - director, writer - including The Awakening Shadow of a Man - director, additional scenes
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel - directorIt's Never Too Late - director
- Assignment Foreign Legion - directorThe Traitor aka The Accursed - director, writer
- Wire Service - director
- Sailor of Fortune - directorOperation Amsterdam - director, writer