Langford Reed

He died in Hampstead in London in 1954 and was buried in the churchyard of St John-at-Hampstead. Fittingly, Reed has a limerick on his headstone:

During World War I Langford Reed served as a Private in the Middlesex Regiment with the British Army in France. He was a prolific scriptwriter for silent film and was the author of a number of books of 'clean' or 'laundered' limericks which he collected or wrote and various of which were illustrated by H. M. Bateman among others, including The Complete Limerick Book (1924); The Indiscreet Limerick Book (1925); Nonsense Verses - An Anthology (editor, c1925); Daphne Goes Down (1925), written with his wife; Further Nonsense: Verse and Prose by Lewis Carroll (editor, 1926); Nonsense Tales for the Young (1927); Who's Who in Filmland (1931) with Hetty Spiers; The Life of Lewis Carroll (1932); Limericks for the Beach, Bathroom and Boudoir (1933); Mr Punch's Limerick Book (editor, 1934); The Limerick Calendar (1935); Sausages & Sundials: A Book of Nonsense Ballads (c1935); The Complete Rhyming Dictionary (1936); My Limerick Book (1937); Another Limerick Calendar (c1939); with his wife Hetty Spiers he wrote The Mantle of Methuselah: A Farcical Novel (1939); and The Writer's Rhyming Dictionary (1961).

He was a writer and director, known for Chase Me Charlie (1918), The Rival Anarchists (1914) and The Little God (1914).

A prolific film writer and director, he was known for The Tempest (1908); wrote the intertitles for and edited Chase Me Charlie (1918), a seven-reel montage of Charlie Chaplin's Essanay films released in Great Britain; The Heart of a Rose (1919); A Lass o' the Looms (1919) and Potter's Clay (1922), the screenplay of which was adapted with his wife in to a novel in 1923. A Freemason, he joined the Authors' Lodge No. 3456 in 1921.

Langford Reed was born on November 11, 1878 in Clapham, London, England as Herbert Langford Reed.