13 Facts About Geoffrey Malins

Late the same year Geoffrey Malins received a War Office appointment to act as an official cameraman.

Geoffrey Malins was given an honorary rank and sent to the front with an assistant.

Geoffrey Malins was invalided out of the army in June 1918.

Geoffrey Malins published an account of his wartime filming in 1920 entitled How I Filmed the War.

Geoffrey Malins produced at least three films, directed by Malins: Patricia Brent, Spinster, The Greater Love and The Golden Web.

Geoffrey Malins made at least half a dozen features and several more shorts with London-born actress Gladys Mary Peterkin Mitchell, a partner at Garrick to whom he was briefly married.

In 1922, Geoffrey Malins was involved in an attempt to fly around the world, in a team including Wing Commander Norman Macmillan and led by Major Wilfred Blake.

In November 1926, Geoffrey Malins commenced an attempt to journey round the world by motorcycle and sidecar accompanied by Charles Oliver.

Geoffrey Malins described the objects of the expedition as being "to create a record for, and demonstrate the reliability of British Motor Cycles, to investigate the position of British films in the various countries traversed; and to secure a film of the whole trip".

Geoffrey Malins shot extensive footage of the trip and gave a series of lectures.

Geoffrey Malins published an account of the motorcycle journey in 1931 entitled 'Going Further'.

In June 1933, Geoffrey Malins married his third wife Phyllis War, and they had one daughter.

Geoffrey Malins died from cancer in Cape Town on 11 February 1940.