Pen Tennyson

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

-

Birthday

1912-08-26 (29 years old)

Deathday

1941-07-10

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Pen Tennyson

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frederick Penrose Tennyson (26 August 1912 – 7 July 1941) was a British film director whose promising career was cut short when he was killed in a plane crash. Tennyson gained experience as an assistant director to Alfred Hitchcock in several of his British films during the 1930s. Tennyson directed three films between 1939 and his death in 1941. He married actress Nova Pilbeam in 1939. He was a great-grandson of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pen Tennyson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

1938

A Yank at Oxford

as Assistant Director

1939

1940

The Proud Valley

as Director

1940

Convoy

as Director

1936

Secret Agent

as Assistant Director

1938

The Citadel

as Assistant Director

1940

Convoy

as Screenplay

1937

Sabotage

as Assistant Director

1934

The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Assistant Director

1935

The 39 Steps

as Assistant Director

1937

Young and Innocent

as Assistant Director

1940

The Proud Valley

as Screenplay

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