B. E. Doxat-Pratt

Bernard Edwin Doxat-Pratt (1886 – unknown) was a British film director who worked for Anglo-Hollandia and Granger-Binger.

Biography
Doxat-Pratt was born in Norwood, Surrey. He served with the Royal Air Force during World War I.

He married Jessie Doxat-Pratt in 1912 and abandoned her a few months later; she divorced him in 1915. He moved to Haarlem in 1920 with his second wife and three children. He divorced in 1929, and was never heard of again by his family, apart from a chance encounter with Norman, his son, in 1940.

He was sent to prison for fraud in 1925 and again in 1927. In 1931, he was sentenced to three months in prison for writing fraudulent checks.

His wife, Ethel, and children Betty, Jack and Norman appeared in several of his films.