---
name: "Jack Beresford"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-beresford"
fi1m_id: "jack-beresford"
imdb_id: "nm0073596"
tmdb_id: 10275
wikidata_id: "Q970076"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1899"
died: "3 December 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:58:01.788620+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jack Beresford

## Identity

Jack Beresford

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-beresford
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jack-beresford
- **IMDb ID:** nm0073596
- **TMDB ID:** 10275
- **Wikidata ID:** Q970076
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Beresford, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q970076, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0073596/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10275

Actor. Born 1 January 1899 in Chiswick. Died 3 December 1977.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1899, Chiswick
- **Died:** 3 December 1977
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Beresford, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q970076, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0073596/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10275

## Biography

Jack Beresford was a British rower who competed at five successive Olympic Games between 1920 and 1936, winning three gold medals and two silver medals.

He was born Jack Beresford-Wiszniewski on 1 January 1899 in Chiswick and died on 3 December 1977 in Shiplake. The son of Olympic rower Julius Beresford, he rowed for the Thames Rowing Club and Leander Club. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics he served as Great Britain's flagbearer at the opening ceremony.

Beresford appears uncredited as himself carrying the British flag in *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938) and as a rower for Britain in *Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty* (1938). Archive footage of him features in *Sunshine* (1999).

*Sources: olympedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938), Fi1m 75, as Self - Carries British Flag (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/olympia-part-one-festival-of-the-nations.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty* (1938), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Jack Beresford in Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)](https://film.one/media/title/39398/still-ec700bb42dd6.jpg) Jack Beresford in *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938) — Image via TMDB
- ![Jack Beresford](https://film.one/media/person/3857556/gallery-00e8bc6b03de.jpg) Jack Beresford — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Jack_Beresford_1920.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![British oarsmen at the 1950 British Empire Games, coach of England's rowers J D Beresford (left) and competitor R D Burneil, standing outside the Lake Karapiro ](https://film.one/media/person/3857556/gallery-fc9eb667a978.jpg) British oarsmen at the 1950 British Empire Games, coach of England's rowers J D Beresford (left) and competitor R D Burneil, standing outside the Lake Karapiro  — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Jack_Beresford_and_Dickie_Burnell_1950.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Also known for

- *Sunshine* (1999), Self - Olympics, Carries UK Flag (archive footage) (uncredited)

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