Sydney Blythe

{{Short description|English cinematographer (1886–1947)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} '''Sydney Charles William Blythe''' (28 December 1886 – 4 March 1947)<ref>{{cite web |title=1939 England and Wales Register |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/10664012:61596?tid=&pid=&queryId=9b044bce7378a0a0fee6f53a971578f9&_phsrc=ddL6406&_phstart=successSource |website=Ancestry |access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref> was an English cinematographer.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090119130947/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/304904 BFI.org]</ref>

In 1939, Blythe became the licensee of the Royal Oak pub in Isleworth.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-cameraman as licensee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-county-of-middlesex-chronicle/124246047/ |access-date=8 May 2023 |work=The County of Middlesex Chronicle |date=21 January 1939}}</ref>

Blythe married Pauline Ethel Talbot on 30 June 1913 in Wandsworth.<ref>{{cite web |title=London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/3544777:1623?tid=&pid=&queryId=0fbeb570eec169ef7c15a55b34076735&_phsrc=ddL6407&_phstart=successSource |website=Ancestry |access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref>

Blythe died on 4 March 1947, aged 60.<ref>{{cite web |title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/17167212:1904?ssrc=pt&tid=106545664&pid=102119029893 |website=Ancestry |access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Faithful Heart'' (1922) * ''Married Love'' (1923) * ''The Knockout'' (1923) * ''She'' (1925) * ''If Youth But Knew'' (1926) * ''Q Ships'' (1928) * ''The Infamous Lady'' (1928) * ''At the Villa Rose'' (1930) * ''Lord Richard in the Pantry'' (1930) * ''Alibi'' (1931) * ''Black Coffee'' (1931) * ''A Night in Montmartre'' (1931) * ''The Lyons Mail'' (1931) * ''Splinters in the Navy'' (1931) * ''A Tight Corner'' (1932) * ''The Face at the Window'' (1932) * ''Once Bitten'' (1932) * ''I Lived with You'' (1933) * ''Excess Baggage'' (1933) * ''This Week of Grace'' (1933) * ''The Wandering Jew'' (1933) * ''Say It with Flowers'' (1934) * ''Bella Donna'' (1934) * ''Blind Justice'' (1934) * ''Kentucky Minstrels'' (1934) * ''Lily of Killarney'' (1934) * ''Lord Edgware Dies'' (1934) * ''The Man Who Changed His Name'' (1934) * ''The Broken Melody'' (1934) * ''She Shall Have Music'' (1935) * ''The Rocks of Valpre'' (1935) * ''Vintage Wine'' (1935) * ''D'Ye Ken John Peel?'' (1935) * ''The Lad'' (1935) * ''A Fire Has Been Arranged'' (1935) * ''Squibs'' (1935) * ''Scrooge'' (1935) * ''Eliza Comes to Stay'' (1936) * ''In the Soup'' (1936) * ''The Angelus'' (1937) * ''Death Croons the Blues'' (1937) * ''A Romance in Flanders'' (1937) * ''Beauty and the Barge'' (1937) * ''Underneath the Arches'' (1937) * ''A People Eternal'' (1939) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0090058}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blythe, Sydney}} Category:1886 births Category:1947 deaths Category:English cinematographers Category:Film people from London