| Daniel Birt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 June 1907 Mersham, Kent, England |
| Died | 15 May 1955 (aged 47) London, England |
| Occupation | Film director and editor |
| Years active | 1932 – 1955 |
Daniel Birt (23 June 1907 – 15 May 1955) was an English film director and editor. Birt began his career as an editor in 1932 with an assistant credit on The Lucky Number, and went on to edit twelve films during the 1930s.
World War II brought a career hiatus and Birt did not return to the film industry until the late 1940s, working as supervising editor on the 1947 films Green Fingers and The Ghosts of Berkeley Square before taking on his first directorial role with The Three Weird Sisters (1948), a pseudo-gothic tale set in a decaying Welsh mansion and counting Dylan Thomas among its scriptwriters. This was followed later the same year by No Room at the Inn, a powerful and unsparing film dealing with child cruelty and abuse in an evacuee household during the war. Birt directed a further ten films in the crime/thriller genre between 1949 and his early death, aged 47, in May 1955. He also directed three episodes of the first series of the ITV television drama The Adventures of Robin Hood, which were broadcast posthumously in late 1955. Birt's final film, Laughing in the Sunshine, was also released after his death.