1935Nominee
Best Director
The 39 Steps
Pen Tennyson
Director · Writer
London, England, UK
August 26, 1912
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frederick Penrose Tennyson (26 August 1912 – 7 July 1941) was a British film director whose promising career was cut short when he was killed in a plane crash. Tennyson gained experience as an assistant director to Alfred Hitchcock in several of his British films during the 1930s. Tennyson directed three films between 1939 and his death in 1941. He married actress Nova Pilbeam in 1939. He was a great-grandson of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pen Tennyson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1936Nominee
Best Director
Secret Agent
1934Nominee
Best Director
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Career Highlights
1940Highlight
Best Director
Convoy
1937Highlight
Best Director
Young and Innocent
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The 39 Steps
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Convoy