First British Film Commissioner Sydney Samuelson Passes Away at Age 97
The BAFTA’s first president and the nation’s first film commissioner, Sydney Samuelson, a pioneer of the British film industry, passed away on December 14. He was 97. He started his career Samuelson began working in the industry in 1939 at 14 in the projection booth at the Luxor Theater in Lancing, West Sussex. He later…
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