Godfrey Winn

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Godfrey Herbert Winn (15 October 1906 – 19 June 1971) was a British journalist known as a columnist, and also a writer and actor.

Born in Birmingham, England, he went to King Edward's School, Birmingham.[1][2] His career as a theatre actor began as a boy actor at the Haymarket Theatre and appeared in many plays and films.[2] He went on to write a number of novels and biographical works, and became a star columnist for the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Express newspapers, and in 1939 was the first British war correspondent to cross the Maginot Line.[2] His book PQ17 was an account of his experiences on Convoy PQ 17 during the Second World War. After the war he wrote numerous books and magazine articles, and appeared on radio and television as well as in films.[2] He was a friend of W. Somerset Maugham and it is said that the character George Potter in Maugham's 1941 novel Strictly Personal was based on him.[2]

Winn died from a heart attack at the age of 64.

Bibliography

  • Dreams Fade (1928)
  • Squirrels Cage
  • The Unequal Conflict
  • Fly Away, Youth
  • Communion on Earth
  • I May Be Wrong
  • Personality Parade
  • A Month of Sundays
  • For My Friends
  • On Going to the Wars
  • The Hour Before the Dawn
  • The Kind of People We Are
  • Scrapbook of the War
  • Home from the Sea
  • Scrapbook of Victory
  • P.Q.17
  • This Fair Country[3]
  • Going My Way
  • The Bend of the River
  • The Younger Sister (Biography)
  • The Younger Queen (Biography)
  • The Queen's Countrywoman (Biography)
  • One Man's Dog (Biography)
  • The Quest For Healing(Biography)
  • Personal Pages (Biography)
  • Infirm Glory (Volume 1 of his Autobiography).
  • The Positive Hour (Volume 2 of his Autobiography)
  • Here Is My Space (Volume 3 of his Autobiography) [4]

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1927 Blighty Robin Villiers
1961 Very Important Person Himself
1963 Billy Liar Disc Jockey
1964 The Bargee Announcer
1966 The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery Truelove
1971 Up the Chastity Belt Archbishop of all England

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Robert Darlaston King Edward's School
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 gay Icons - Godfrey Winn
  3. ↑ The above bibliographic list taken from a copy of the first edition of This Fair Country published in 1951 by Hutchinsn (UK)
  4. ↑ Additional Biographic and Autobiographic titles taken from a copy of The Positive Hour which was first published by Michael Joseph (UK) in 1970 before 3rd volume of autobiography was published.

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