Jack Raymond (1886–1953) was an English actor and film director. Born in Wimborne, Dorset in 1886, he began acting before the First World War in A Detective for a Day. In 1921, he directed his first film and gradually he wound down his acting to concentrate completely on directing - making more than forty films in total before his death in 1953.

He was associated with the Hepworth Studios of Walton on Thames, since his portrait appears on a studio publicity postcard when he was probably in his early twenties.

He had a major success in 1930 with The Great Game, one of the earliest films devoted to football and followed it up with Up for the Cup a year later. He remade Up for the Cup in 1950.

Partial filmography

Director

• The Vicar of Wakefield (1913)

• Red, White and Blue Blood (1917)

• The English Rose (1920)

• The Flat (1921)

• A Woman Misunderstood (1921)

• Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921)

• The Curse of Westacott (1921)

• Second to None (1927)

• Lonesome (1928)

• Sally of the Scandals (1928)

• Three Weekends (1928)

• A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929)

• Splinters (1929)

• The Great Game (1930)

• Mischief (1931)

• Almost a Divorce (1931)

• Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931)

• Up for the Cup (1931)

• Life Goes On (1932)

• Say It with Music (1932)

• Up to the Neck (1933)

• It's a King (1933)

• Night of the Garter (1933)

• Girls, Please! (1934)

• Come Out of the Pantry (1935)

• Where's George? (1935)

• Streamline Express (1935)

• The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)

• Talk of the Devil (1936)

• When Knights Were Bold (1936)

• Chick (1936, producer)

• The Frog (1937)

• Blondes for Danger (1938)

• A Royal Divorce (1938)

• You Will Remember (1941)

• Up for the Cup (1950)

• Take Me to Paris (1951)

• Reluctant Heroes (1951)

Actor

• The Vicar of Wakefield (1913) - Moses Primrose

• The Lights of Home (1920) - Mark

• The English Rose (1920)

• His Other Wife (1921) - Dick Riviere

• The Dinkum Bloke (1923) - John Gilder

• Dope (1924)

• The Only Way (1925) - Jacques

• The Last Command (1928) - Assistant Director

• Up for the Cup (1931) - Railway clerk (final film role)

References