Sidney Morgan
Sidney Arthur Morgan (born August 2, 1874 in Bermondsey , London , † June 11, 1946 in Boscombe ) was a British film director, screenwriter and producer.
Sidney Morgan made his directorial debut in 1914. He worked for the Progress Film Company after the First World War . In his films mostly his daughter Joan Morgan appeared as the leading actress. In 1919 he went to Shoreham-by-Sea for the company and made 17 films there over the next three years. Many of them were adaptations , such as Little Dorrit , The Mayor of Casterbridge and A Lowland Cinderella , which have since been rediscovered as original films . In the 1930s he was mainly active as a producer. For example, in 1929 for the German-English co-production Nachtgestalten , directed by Hans Steinhoff .
He had one of his few appearances as an actor in Alfred Hitchcock's Juno and the Paycock in 1930 .
Web links
- Sidney Morgan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Morgan, Sidney |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morgan, Sidney Arthur (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film director, screenwriter and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bermondsey , London , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1946 |
| Place of death | Boscombe , Bournemouth , Dorset , United Kingdom |