Career
He was by his own account the principal author of Hitchcock"s first BIP film The Ring (1927), and credited as the author of the original story on which Champagne (1928) was based. Their friendship does not seem to survived their collaboration. Mycroft was elevated to head of production at Elstree during the 1930s, during which time BIP was reconstituted as the Associated British Picture Corporation.
The company released a large number of films on which Mycroft was credited as producer, with varying levels of actual involvement.
David Mycroft, who isn"t mentioned in Walter Mycroft"s autobiography The Time of My Life, edited by Vincent Porter and published posthumously, was an experimental filmmaker, poet and psychologist who studied with Rural Delivery Laing. David Mycroft"s daughter Ruth Novaczek is a British experimental film maker.
