E.V.H. Emmett was a British newsreader

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

. Though his main job was as a commentator for Gaumont British News, he was frequently used as a narrator in the films of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. He also acted as a screenwriter on Under the Southern Cross (1957), Dance Hall

Dance Hall (film)

Dance Hall is a 1950 British film directed by Charles Crichton. Appealing mainly to a female audience, the film was an unusual departure for the studio, known at the time primarily for its classic comedies starring Alec Guinness.-Plot:...

(1950), Bothered by a Beard (1945, which he also produced and directed), The Lion Has Wings

The Lion Has Wings

The Lion Has Wings is a 1939 British, black-and-white, documentary-style, propaganda, war film. The film was directed by Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda and Michael Powell...

(1939) and Sabotage

Sabotage (film)

Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent...

(1936), along with additional dialogue for Young Man's Fancy

Young Man's Fancy (film)

Young Man's Fancy is a 77 minute long 1940 British comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson, who also wrote the story, and starring Anna Lee and Griffith Jones. An aristocratic Englishman is unhappily engaged to a brewery heiress but meets a human cannonball during a visit to a circus and falls in...

(1940), The Ware Case (1938) and Non-Stop New York

Non-Stop New York

Non-Stop New York is a 1937 crime film based on the novel Sky Steward by Ken Attiwill. A woman who can clear an innocent man of the charge of murder is pursued by gangsters onto a luxurious transatlantic flying boat.-Cast:...

(1937).

Filmography

Narrator unless otherwise noted.

• Carry on Cleo
  Carry On Cleo
  Carry On Cleo is the tenth film in the Carry On film series and was released in 1964. The website ICONS.a portrait of England cites the Carry On films as iconic of British cinema, and describes Carry On Cleo as "perhaps the best". Regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles...
  
  (1964)
• Invitation to Monte Carlo (1959)
• Skyport (1958)
• Passport to Pimlico
  Passport to Pimlico
  Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starred Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius....
  
  (1949) - Newsreel Commentator (uncredited)
• Easy Money
  Easy Money (1948 film)
  Easy Money, a satirical 1948 British film about one of the most beloved traditions of the English middle class, the football pool, is composed of four tales about the effect a major win has on four different groups in the postwar period...
  
  (1948) - Commentary
• On Approval
  On Approval (1944 film)
  On Approval is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Clive Brook and starring Beatrice Lillie, Clive Brook and Googie Withers. It is based on the play On Approval by Frederick Lonsdale.-Cast:* Beatrice Lillie - Maria Wislack* Clive Brook - George...
  
  (1944)
• Get Cracking
  Get Cracking
  Get Cracking is a 1943 British, black-and-white, comedy, war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Ronald Shiner as Everett Manley and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia Productions.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1943)
• The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
  The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
  The Arsenal Stadium Mystery is a 1939 British mystery film, and is one of the first feature films where football is a central element in the plot....
  
  (1940) - Himself
• Civilian Front (1940) - Commentary
• Sailors Three
  Sailors Three
  Sailors Three is a 1940 British war comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Carla Lehmann. Thre British sailors accidentally find themselves aboard a German ship during the Second World War....
  
  (1940)- Newsreel Commentator (uncredited)
• For Freedom
  For Freedom
  For Freedom is a 1940 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and Castleton Knight. It was made largely for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. It featured Will Fyffe, Guy Middleton, and Terry-Thomas....
  
  (1940) - Ted/Commentator
• The Lion Has Wings
  The Lion Has Wings
  The Lion Has Wings is a 1939 British, black-and-white, documentary-style, propaganda, war film. The film was directed by Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda and Michael Powell...
  
  (1939) - Narrator, UK version
• Wings of the Morning
  Wings of the Morning (film)
  Wings of the Morning is a 1937 British drama film directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring Annabella, Henry Fonda and Leslie Banks. Glenn Tryon was the originally director but he was fired and replaced by Schuster...
  
  (1937) - Racing Commentator

External links

• http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/560335/