Sir Sydney H. Wylie Samuelson, a British director and cinematographer, has received an OBE. Samuelson worked as a rewind boy at the Luxor cinema in Lancing, West Sussex, where he first started in the motion picture business.
In 1954, Samuelson established Samuelson Film Service to rent out filmmaking supplies. After that, Samuelson held the first British Film Commissioner job for six years.
He was selected by the British government in 1991 to serve as the first British Film Commissioner. He first started out as a trainee film editor for Gaumont British, which at the time was based in Lime Grove in London, after working as a relief operator for the ABC circuit in a number of theaters in the Midlands.
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Samuelson passed away naturally. He still has his three sons Jonathan, Marc, and Peter, who are all film and television producers, as well as eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
He served in the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1947 before becoming a trainee cameraman for the Colonial Film Unit. Early this year, Samuelson lost his wife.
