Kathleen was a daughter of John Henry Godfrey, a Royal Navy intelligence officer on whom Ian Fleming is said to have based James Bond's boss "M".
[16] In 1990, she directed the series Naked Hollywood on the motion picture industry, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Nora Ephron, Oliver Stone, Terry Gilliam and Harvey Weinstein.
[17] After moving into drama in the 1990s, Kinmonth directed episodes of BBC1's Grange Hill, Casualty with Robson Green and Sophie Okonedo, and EastEnders with Ross Kemp and June Brown.
The film features Ai Weiwei, Alan Bennett, Grayson Perry, Robert Macfarlane with Freddie Fox and Tamsin Greig.
Kinmonth has worked with the charity Amnesty International, directing the feature doc film Remember the Secret Policeman’s Ball?
produced by Roger Graef, and starring Rowan Atkinson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Palin and Sting.
[citation needed] Kinmonth worked with Combat Stress, the charity for veterans' mental health, on War Art with Eddie Redmayne, about WW1, shown on ITV network.
The article features never before published personal correspondence, bundles of handwritten letters, private diaries and family photos.
The talk featured previously unseen material unearthed in the preparation of the biography film "Secret Admiral” directed by Kinmonth.
The talk featured readings from his unpublished memoirs, previously unseen family photos, along with official wartime portraits by Cecil Beaton and society photographer Dorothy Wilding.