films (1915-45) and directed Breach of Promise (1942), which he also wrote.

Life and career

Pertwee had French Huguenot ancestry (his surname was an Anglicisation of "Perthuis"; the origins of his surname being "de Perthuis de Laillevault", the family being Counts descended from Charlemagne). His career began as a painter after he gained a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools

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