{{Short description|Australian cinematographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox person |name = Lacey Percival |image = Lacey Percival Everyones 14Mar1923.jpg |caption = Portrait of Lacey Percival (published in 1923). |birth_name = Edgar Charles Lacey Percival |birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|02|11|df=y}} |birth_place= Glebe, New South Wales, Australia. |death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|08|07|1885|02|11|df=y}} |death_place= Manly, New South Wales, Australia. |education = |occupation = cinematographer |title = |spouse = Catherine Blanche Morris |children = |parents = Andrew Percival & Bertha Adelaide (''née'' Theakston) |signature = |known for = }}
'''Lacey Percival''' (11 February 1885 – 7 August 1968) was an Australian cinematographer who worked on many early Australian silent films. He worked for the Australian Photo-Play Company then joined West's Pictures. When that company merged with Australasian Films he ran their weekly newsreel, ''Australasian Gazette'' until 1925.<ref>{{Citation | title=C. Lacey Percival Resigns from A.F. Ltd. | journal=Everyones. | volume=5| issue=311 (17 February 1926) | location=Sydney | publisher=Everyones Ltd | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-574672185 | id=nla.obj-574672185 | access-date=25 February 2024 | via=Trove }}</ref>
Two years later he went to work for Automatic Film Laboratories, then in 1935 established Percival Film Laboratories which he ran until his retirement in 1948.<ref>Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 16</ref><ref name=everyones>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-553213505/view?sectionId=nla.obj-569876460 The Versatile Cameraman], ''Everyones'' (Sydney), Vol. 3 No. 158 (14 March 1923), page 3.</ref>
==Filmography== *''The Golden West'' (1911) *''The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell'' (1916) *''£500 Reward'' (1918) *''His Convict Bride'' (1918) *''Cupid Camouflaged'' (1918) *''The Face at the Window'' (1919) *''Desert Gold'' (1919) *''The Man from Snowy River'' (1920) *''Robbery Under Arms'' (1920) *''Possum Paddock'' (1921) *''The Betrayer'' (1921) *''The Dinkum Bloke'' (1923) *''The Dingo'' (1923) *''Prehistoric Hayseeds'' (1923) *''The Digger Earl'' (1924) *''Dope'' (1924) *''Joe'' (1924) *''Painted Daughters'' (1925) *''Around the Boree Log'' (1925) *''The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' (1925) *''The Adventures of Algy'' (1925) *''The Sealed Room'' (1926) *''Tall Timber'' (1926) *''Down Under'' (1927) *''The Birth of White Australia'' (1928) *''The Kingdom of Twilight'' (1929) *''Among the Hardwoods'' (1936)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0672885}} *[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=Person%3A%22%2FPerson%2Fkey%2F20027-1%22;querytype=;resCount=10 Lacey Percival] at National Film and Sound Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Percival, Lacey}} Category:Australian cinematographers Category:1969 deaths Category:1885 births
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