After professional naval service Kimmins became an actor in quota quickies,
and then adaptor of his own celebrated farces such as While Parents
Sleep (1935). He wrote and directed some of George
Formby's best comedies, and then returned to the Royal Navy for
the war. Afterwards his output was variable, from the intricate psychological
thriller Mine Own Executioner (1947), to the disastrous Bonnie Prince
Charke (1948). His last film was in a sense a return to the beginning
of his cinema career, an adaptation of his West End farce The
Amorous Prawn (1962).
