Sir Sydney H. Wylie Samuelson was born on 7 December 1925 – 14 December 2022 was a British film director and cinematographer. He was appointed in 1991 by the government of the UK as the first British Film Commissioner.
Samuelson started his career as a rewind boy at the Luxor cinema in Lancing, West Sussex. After working in several cinemas in the Midlands as a relief operator for the ABC circuit, he got a job as a trainee film editor with Gaumont British, which was then at Lime Grove in London.
Samuelson wrote the foreword featured in the book In Conversation with Cinematographers by David A. Ellis, published by the American publisher Rowman & Littlefield. He was the first President of the UK Jewish Film Festival. He remained in the role until 2005, and as of 2010 is currently the UKJFF Honorary Lifetime Patron.
Samuelson died at his home on 14 December 2022, at the age of 97.
Sydney Samuelson’s parents: Meet G. B. Samuelson
Sydney Wylie Samuelson was born in Paddington, London to George Berthold Samuelson, a cinema pioneer of the silent film era, and Marjorie Emma Elizabeth Vint. He was educated at the Irene Avenue Council School in Lancing, West Sussex
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