Sidney Northcote
Sidney Webber Northcote was an actor and film director.
He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1884. He married Kathleen Kerr in Manchester in 1921 and they had 3 sons. He died in London 1952 at the age of 67. He was the director 14 silent films made between 1912 and 1914. He also appeared as an actor in 7 short films shot on location in Wales and Cornwall that he directed in 1912 for the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company. All of them were scripted by Harold Brett and featured Dorothy Foster in the starring role. None is known to have survived.
1912
- The Witch of the Welsh Mountains
- The Smuggler's Daughter of Anglesea
- The Belle of Bettwys-y Coed
- The Pedlar of Penmaenmawr
- The Fishergirl of Cornwall
- A Cornish Romance
- A Tragedy on the Cornish Coast
- Through Death's Valley
- Saved by Fire
1913
1914
- The Troubles of an Heiress
- The King of Crime
- Detective Daring and the Thames Coiners
- Mary the Fishergirl
1915
1927
- In July 1927, Northcote appeared as Amiens and as Jacques in a production of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' in Cardiff, Wales.
1932
- In 1932 he produced what appears to have been his final film, 'Verdict of the Sea'.
