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(1936)]] Bill Blewitt was a Cornwall postman 'discovered' by film-maker Harry Watt and cast in his 1936 film The Saving of Bill Blewitt''. The documentary was about the Post Office Savings Bank and featured Blewitt and the villagers of Mousehole in Cornwall. Assistant director Pat Jackson remembered Blewitt's "mesmeric gift of the gab, a glorious Cornish accent, twinkling blue eyes, a grin as broad as 'Popeye' and the charismatic charm of the Celt." The Saving of Bill Blewitt at the BFI's Film Online Charles Crichton remembered Blewitt as a natural actor and storyteller. 1987 Interview with Charles Crichton
Blewitt went on to feature in several more films, The Guardian, Scott Anthony, Ealing's salt-of-the-earth film star, 13 March 2009 sometimes as a supporting actor but also playing a major role, such as the father in the 1945 canal docu-drama Painted Boats.
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