Gerald Mitchell

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Born on 28 March 1911 in Manchester, Gerald Mitchell served in the Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War promoted to the rank of Captain and acting as Major just prior to leaving the service.

Gerald entered the British Film Indistry where he worked as Assistant Director on the following Films:

Man from Morocco (1945) 2nd Assistant Director
Wanted for Murder (1946) Assistant Director
Piccadilly Incident (1946) Production Manager
Night boat to Dublin (1946) 2nd Assistant Director
Brighton Rock (1947) Assistant Director
Hasty Heart (1949) Production Manager
Man on the Run (1949) Production Manager
Landfall (1949) Production Manager
Stage fright (1950) Production Manager
Captain Heratio Hornblower (1950) Production manager
Happy go lovely (1951) Production Manager
The Woman's Angle (1952)Production Manager
For Better/For Worse (1954) Production Manager
Yield to the night (1956) Production Manager
Moby Dick (1956) Production Manager (uncredited)

In the mid 1950's, Gerald left the film industry, entering television and joined ABC with its production centre in Manchester. Gerald was integral to the development of Oh Boy in 1958 See:[1], working alongside the great Jack Good ( See: [2] and [3].)

After moving to London in the early 1960's Gerald Mitchell continued to work on production and development of independent television ultimatly turning down an offer to head the new Thames Television company which was planned to be formed in the late sixties. At the time the name of Thames had not been decided. Gerald Mitchell retired in 1965. Within two years he started work again, this time as Jewel House Supervisor at the Tower of London.

Gerald Mitchell retired from the Tower in 1967 and did not work again until his death in 1989.