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Sir Basil Hardington Bartlett, 2nd Baronet (15 September 1905 – 2 January 1985IMDb: Basil Bartlett
Retrieved 8 November 2012) was an actor, screenwriter and writer, and in the 1950s the head of the

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's script department. In June 1921, at the age of 16, he became the second Bartlett baronet of Hardington Mandeville, when he inherited the title from his grandfather, the building contractor Sir Herbert Bartlett, as his father had died the year before. He was educated at

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, Derbyshire, before continuing to Corpus Christi College at

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts.The Peerage: Lt.-Col. Sir Basil Hardington Bartlett, 2nd Bt.
Retrieved 8 November 2012 Having started as a stage actor in the 1930s, he joined the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

at the outbreak of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, and served as a

captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...

during the retreat to

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'' (1942) (which he later also turned into a novel), ''

Secret Mission ''Secret Mission'' is a 1942 British war film directed by Harold French and starring Hugh Williams, James Mason, Nancy Price, Carla Lehmann and Roland Culver. Plot During the Second World War, British Army Major Peter Garnett assembles a team ...

'' (1942) and ''

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'' (1943) before joining the Intelligence Corps, where he gained the rank of

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in charge of the kinematographic group of

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. After the war, he briefly tried to take up his career as actor again, appearing in ''

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'' (1951), before joining the BBC, where he became head of the script department, but also translated a couple of French screenplays. He also participated as model in three of the six 15-minute programmes in BBC's first ever series in colour, ''Men, Women and Clothes'', a history of fashion which was broadcast between 21 April and 26 May 1957 (available in the BBC on line archive).BBC Archive: ''Men, Women and Clothes: How Fashions Come and Go''
Retrieved 8 November 2012 He was married to

Mary Malcolm Helen Mary Malcolm
Retrieved 2012-11-08 (15 March 191813 October 2010) was one of the first two regular female announcers on

, one of the first two regular female announcers on

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Television after World War II, from 1937 to 1960, and they had three daughters. When he died in 1985, the baronet title went to his younger brother, the Olympic fencer

David Bartlett David John Bartlett (born 19 January 1968) is an Australian former politician in the state of Tasmania, serving as the 43rd Premier of Tasmania from May 2008 until January 2011. He was a Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly s ...

Filmography

* ''Less Than Kind'' (TV film) (1959) (translator) * ''Men, Women and Clothes: Informal Clothes'' (TV programme) (1957) (actor) * ''Men, Women and Clothes: Sense and Nonsense in Fashion'' (TV programme) (1957) (actor) * ''Men, Women and Clothes: How Fashions Come and Go'' (TV programme) (1957) (actor) * ''It Is Midnight, Doctor Schweitzer'' (TV film) (1953) (translator) * ''Asmodée'' (TV film) (1952) (translator) * ''

'' (1951) (actor, playing Captain Elliott – uncredited) * ''Dunkirk: A Personal Perspective'' (radio programme) (1950) (narrator) * ''

'' (scenario) (1943) * ''

'' (screenwriter) (1942) * ''

The Next of Kin ''The Next of Kin'', also known as ''Next of Kin'', is a 1942 Second World War propaganda film produced by Ealing Studios. The film was originally commissioned by the British War Office as a training film to promote the government message tha ...

'' (screenwriter and military supervisor) (1942)

Bibliography

* Captain Sir Basil Bartlett Bt: ''My First War: An Army Officer's Journal for May 1940, Through Belgium to Dunkirk'' – London: Chatto & Windas, 1940. * Sir Basil Bartlett: ''Next of Kin, a novel'' – London: Chatto & Windus, 1944 * Sir Basil Bartlett: ''Writing for Television'' – London: Allen & Unwin, 1955 * Sir Basil Bartlett: ''Jam Tomorrow: Some Early Reminiscences'' – London: Harper Collins, 1978. WorldCat: ''Jam Tomorrow: Some Early Reminiscences''
Retrieved 8 November 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bartlett, Basil British male screenwriters British Army personnel of World War II Intelligence Corps officers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1905 births 1985 deaths 20th-century British screenwriters