11 Facts About Adrian Brunel

Adrian Brunel was an English film director and screenwriter.

Adrian Brunel's surviving work from the 1920s, both full-length feature films and shorts, is highly regarded by silent film historians for its distinctive innovation, sophistication and wit.

Adrian Brunel's lost films are eagerly sought, and the British Film Institute includes two, The Crooked Billet and Badger's Green, on its "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films.

Adrian Brunel's mother Adey was a drama teacher so he grew up in a stage milieu and dabbled in acting and writing plays, as well as training in opera.

Adrian Brunel's feature film debut was a time-travelling story set in Venice and included location filming in the Italian city.

Between 1923 and 1925, Adrian Brunel directed a series of sophisticated comedy burlesque short films, frequently lampooning fads or institutions of the day.

Adrian Brunel targeted the British film industry itself, with So This Is Jollygood bemoaning what he saw as its general ineptitude in comparison with its American counterpart, and Cut It Out attacking the over-zealousness of the British film censors.

Adrian Brunel's third film of 1928 was A Light Woman starring Benita Hume, while 1929 brought the Madeleine Carroll vehicle The Crooked Billet, which Adrian Brunel described in his autobiography as "my last, and perhaps my best, silent film".

Adrian Brunel returned to film directing in 1933, and over the following four years made 17 quota quickies, mainly for Fox British.

Adrian Brunel published an autobiography Nice Work in 1949, and died in February 1958, aged 65.

Adrian Brunel wrote two guides to filmmaking and a memoir detailing his time in the industry.