This is Your Life - Johnny Checketts

“One of nature’s gentlemen” and “very nice, always correct,” that’s the bottom line for many of the guests honouring World War II fighter ace Johnny Checketts in this 1990 This is Your Life. The Kiwi pilot shot down 14 and a half enemy aircraft (one was shared) but plays down his own heroics. He can’t control the emotion though when he meets a French woman who helped rescue him after being shot down over enemy territory and who he hasn’t seen in 50 years. Checketts is also joined by friends, family and colleagues, including the man who taught him to fly.

I had indeed met one of nature’s gentlemen.

– Air Marshall David Crooks

Key Cast & Crew

John Lye

Director, Producer

Dave Hedge

Sound

Nicole Smith

Sound

Roy Trebilco

Sound

Bronwyn Williams

Camera

Geoff Clements

Camera