Humphrey Jennings: Humphrey Jennings. Director: Fires Were Started. Humphrey Jennings, born in 1907, was a writer, set designer, painter, editor and, perhaps most famously, a director of ground-breaking documentary films for the renowned GPO film unit: Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943) and A Diary for Timothy (1945), films that changed the face of public service broadcasting. Throughout his life Jennings also worked on his great anthology on the Industrial...
Known For: Fires Were Started (Director), The Silent Village (Director), Family Portrait (Director), The Eighty Days (Director)