British film industry veteran Sir Sydney Samuelson has died. He was 97. Samuelson died from old age on 14 December 2022. A statement from the British Film Institute said he was “surrounded by his loving family.” Samuelson was born on 7 December 1925.
He came from a UK film industry family. His father, George ‘Bertie’ Samuelson, was a producer of silent films, making more than 100 movies from 1910 onwards; his mother Marjorie ran a draper’s shop in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.
Samuelson entered the film business in 1939 aged 14 in the projection box of the Luxor Cinema in Lancing, West Sussex, going on to work as a relief operator in several cinemas in the Midlands for ABC cinemas.
He then trained as a Film Editor with Gaumont British Newsreel in London. He was later a cinematographer and worked on many shows for the BBC and independent television companies on a range of productions, including Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1953.
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