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Eddie Hapgood

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Eddie Hapgood

by Fred Daniels
vintage bromide print, 1939
16 1/4 in. x 12 in. (412 mm x 304 mm)
Purchased, 1988
Primary Collection
NPG P385

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  • Fred Daniels (1892-1959), Film stills photographer. Artist or producer of 88 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Huntington-Whiteley, James, The Book of British Sporting Heroes, 1998 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 16 October 1998 to 24 January 1999), p. 122
  • Rogers, Malcolm, Camera Portraits, 1989 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 20 October 1989 - 21 January 1990), p. 235 Read entry

    The England full-back Eddie Hapgood, the outstanding defender of his day, joined Arsenal from Kettering at the age of nineteen. Between 1927 and 1944 he played 396 times for the first team; he won five League championship medals and two FA cup winners' medals. He played for England 43 times (including 13 war-time internationals), captaining the side on 34 occasions. When his playing days were over he managed Blackburn and Watford.

    Fred Daniels was a film-stills photographer at Elstree Studios, and later at Pinewood and Denham, where he did much work for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, on such films as 49th Parallel (1941), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and Black Narcissus (1946). This portrait was taken in connection with Hapgood's role in the film The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939), directed by Thorold Dickinson.

  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 278

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Current affairs

Britain goes to war. The German invasion of Poland demonstrated that the policy of appeasement had failed. After refusing to meet Britain's ultimatum to withdraw troops, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Second World War had begun.

Art and science

The Sutton Hoo burial ship is discovered. Apparently following a dream, Mrs Pretty invited the archaeologist Basil Brown to investigate a series of burial mounds on her estate on the banks of the river Deben in Suffolk. The excavation revealed an Anglo-Saxon burial, uncovering the most significant horde of early medieval artefacts found in Britain (now housed at the British Museum).

International

The Second World War begins. Germany's invasion of Poland prompted Britain and France to declare war forming the core of the Allied powers. As part of the Soviet-Nazi Pact, the Soviet Union joined the war on the German side, helping, with Italy, to form the Axis Powers. Poland was soon overpowered and the Baltic Republics and Finland were invaded by the Soviet Union.

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