Lacey Percival

Lacey Percival
Portrait of Lacey Percival (published in 1923).
Born	Edgar Charles Lacey Percival (1885-02-11)11 February 1885 Glebe, New South Wales, Australia.
Died	7 August 1968(1968-08-07) (aged 83) Manly, New South Wales, Australia.
Occupation	cinematographer
Spouse	Catherine Blanche Morris
Parent	Andrew Percival & Bertha Adelaide (née Theakston)

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.^[1]

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.^[2][3]

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

1. "C. Lacey Percival Resigns from A.F. Ltd.", Everyones., 5 (311 (17 February 1926)), Sydney: Everyones Ltd, nla.obj-574672185, retrieved 25 February 2024 – via Trove
2. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 16
3. The Versatile Cameraman, Everyones (Sydney), Vol. 3 No. 158 (14 March 1923), page 3.

External links

• Lacey Percival at IMDb
• Lacey Percival at National Film and Sound Archive