Faith Margaret Ellen Bennett (1903–1969) was a British actress and
ATA pilot.
Biography
Bennett was born Margaret Ellen Riddick
on 12 May 1903 in London, England.
One of her brothers died during the First World War.
In 1930, she married film writer
Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett, and over the course of the 1930s she starred in multiple British films under the stage name Faith Bennett.
Bennett took flying lessons at the Northampton School of flying, Sywell, her instructor was the famous WWI flying Ace Tommy Rose DFC, she took these lessons alongside her acting career, earning both a British aviator's certificate and an American flying license (the couple moved to the U.S. briefly while Charles worked for
Universal Studios
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).
In July 1941, Bennett joined the ATA.
She received her training and was assigned to No. 5 Ferry Pilot Pool (F.P.P.) in December that year, and only two days later was forced to make a crash landing due to poor weather and a stalled engine.
Bennett sustained "slight injuries", and was afterwards assigned to the Hamble Ferry Pool.
She remained with the ATA until July 1945.
After the WW2 she divorced Charles Bennett and married fellow ATA pilot Herbert Henry Newmark in 1946.
Bennett died in 1969.
The
British Women Pilots' Association
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named the Faith Bennett Navigation Cup after her, and the trophy is still awarded annually to women pilots of special merit.
Filmography
* ''
The Officers' Mess
''The Officers' Mess'' is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Manning Haynes and starring Richard Cooper, Harold French and Elsa Lanchester. It was made at Walton Studios.Wood p.72 It was released as a quota quickie by Paramount Pictures.
A ...
'' (1931)
* ''
Mannequin
A mannequin (also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles. Pr ...
'' (1932)
* ''
Eyes of Fate
''Eyes of Fate'' is a 1933 British sports fantasy film directed by Ivar Campbell and starring Allan Jeayes, Valerie Hobson and Terence De Marney. It is a quota quickie, made at Shepperton Studios.Wood p.77 It is also known by the alternative t ...
'' (1933)
* ''
The Pride of the Force
''The Pride of the Force'' is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Norman Lee and starring Leslie Fuller, Patrick Aherne, Faith Bennett and Hal Gordon. The plot concerns a farmworker who inadvertently becomes the pride of the Metropolitan ...
'' (1933)
* ''
Hawley's of High Street
''Hawley's of High Street'' is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Leslie Fuller, Judy Kelly, Francis Lister and Moore Marriott. Its plot concerns a butcher and a draper who stand for election to the local counci ...
'' (1933)
* ''
Seeing Is Believing'' (1934)
* ''
Master and Man'' (1934)
* ''
One Good Turn'' (1936)
References
Bibliography
* Brown, Geoff. ''Launder and Gilliat''. British Film Institute, 1977.
External links
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1969 deaths
British film actresses
British stage actresses
Actresses from London
British World War II pilots
British women in World War II
Air Transport Auxiliary pilots
British aviators
1903 births
Women aviators
20th-century British actresses
20th-century English women
20th-century English people