Michael Barringer

{{Short description|British writer, screenwriter and playwright (1884–1954)}}

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Michael Barringer (30 July 18851939 England and Wales Register – ) was a British writer, screenwriter and playwright. He also occasionally served as film director, directing four films early in his career.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057467/|title=Michael Barringer|website=IMDb|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/14359?view=credit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119052839/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/14359?view=credit|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-19|title=Michael Barringer|publisher=}} His play Inquest was the first performed at the Windmill Theatre when it opened in 1931.{{cite web|url=http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Archive/Feb2003/Page2.htm|title=The Windmill Theatre, Great Windmill Street, London, W.1|publisher=}}

He was born in 1884, and died, aged 70, in 1954.