B. E. Doxat-Pratt
{{Short description|British film director}}
Bernard Edwin Doxat-Pratt (1886 – unknown)[https://web.archive.org/web/20210719055646/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5bc6d3 B.E. Doxat-Pratt] at the British Film Institute{{cite web|url=https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/person/bernard-edwin-doxat-pratt|title=Bernard Edwin Doxat-Pratt}} was a British film director who worked for Anglo-Hollandia and Granger-Binger.
Biography
Doxat-Pratt was born in Norwood, Surrey.1911 England Census He served with the Royal Air Force during World War I.
He married Jessie Doxat-Pratt in 1912 and abandoned her a few months later; she divorced him in 1915.{{cite news |title=Bad in Everyone's Eyes |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003358/19151226/059/0005 |access-date=18 February 2024 |work=Weekly Dispatch |date=26 December 1915 |page=5}} He moved to Haarlem in 1920 with his second wife and three children. He divorced in 1929, and was never heard of again by his family, apart from a chance encounter with Norman, his son, in 1940.
He was sent to prison for fraud in 1925 and again in 1927. In 1931, he was sentenced to three months in prison for writing fraudulent checks.Registers of Habitual Criminals and Police Gazettes, 1834–1934
His wife, Ethel,{{cite web|url=https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/person/ethel-doxat-pratt|title=Ethel Doxat-Pratt}} and children Betty,{{cite web|url=https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/person/betty-doxat-pratt|title=Betty Doxat-Pratt}} Jack{{cite web|url=https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/person/jack-doxat-pratt|title=Jack Doxat-Pratt}} and Norman{{cite web|url=https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/person/norman-doxat-pratt|title=Norman Doxat-Pratt}} appeared in several of his films.
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Original title !! English title !! Role | |||
| 1919 | Het verborgen leven | Hidden Lives | advisor |
| 1919 | Zonnetje | director | |
| 1920 | De heldendaad van Peter Wells | The Little Hour of Peter Wells | director |
| 1920 | De vrouw van den minister | John Heriot's Wife | director, writer |
| 1920 | Hard tegen hard | The Skin Game | director, writer |
| 1920 | Wat eeuwig blijft | Fate's Plaything | actor, director |
| 1920 | Zooals ik ben | As God Made Her | director, writer |
| 1920 | Zuster Brown | Sister Brown | director |
| 1921 | Een lach en een traan | Laughter and Tears (Circus Jim) | director |
| 1921 | Onder spiritistischen dwang | The Other Person | director |
| 1922 | Bulldog Drummond | writer | |
| 1922 | De Jantjes | The Bluejackets | director |
| 1927 | My Lord The Chauffeur | director |
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