Greville Maud Lingard Kent

Greville Kent was a cutter at Movietone who was called up into the Royal Navy after the outbreak of war in 1939, and, according to Terry Gallacher [qv], ‘served on escort duty on the Murmansk run in a converted liner.' By 1946 he was back at Movietone, where Reg Sutton [qv] recalled him working when he joined the company in that year. As Gallacher noted, Kent was now ‘a cutter working on ‘specials’': ‘These were local stories intended only for use in a given city or town e.g. Newcastle, Glasgow, etc.' In this he worked with Alan Haythorne [qv]. Kent later became Movietone’s foreign editor. He was still entered on the Movietone staff list for October 1951, but in 1955 Kent left to join ITN, with whom he remained until his retirement. He was replaced as foreign editor by Gallacher. Kent was married to Irene Sullivan of Movietone, who was secretary to Tommy Scales [qv], and then to E. T. Adams [qv].

Sources

Reg Sutton’s typescript autobiography, copy in BUFVC: BUFVC, T. M. Gallacher, ‘Additional Notes,' October 1998.