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 The Australian Photo-Play Company was a short-lived but highly productive Australian film production company which operated from 1911 to 1912. Establishment Stanley Crick, who was Pathe Freres manager in Australia, and Herbert Finlay had enjoyed ...

then joined

West's Pictures West's Pictures was a short-lived Australian film production and exhibition company during the silent era. It was established by English theatrical entrepreneur Thomas James West (1885–1916) who helped turn the company into one of Australia's l ...

. When that company merged with

Australasian Films Australasian Films, full name Union Theatres and Australasian Films, was an Australian film distribution and production company formed in 1913 that was wound up in the 1930s to merge into Greater Union. The Union Theatres and Australasian Films ...

he ran their weekly newsreel, ''Australasian Gazette'' until 1925. 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.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 16The Versatile Cameraman
''Everyones'' (Sydney), Vol. 3 No. 158 (14 March 1923), page 3.

Filmography

*'' The Golden West'' (1911) *'' The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell'' (1916) *''

£500 Reward ''£500 Reward'' is a 1918 Australian silent film starring, written, produced, financed and directed by Claude Flemming who later described it as "a very lurid melodrama". Synopsis A "five-act" drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mo ...

'' (1918) *''

His Convict Bride ''His Convict Bride'' is a 1918 Australian silent film from the team of John and Agnes Gavin. It was a convict-era melodrama. Plot In 1813 England, Bess Shelgrove rejects a suitor, Adam Wilson who works as a bank clerk. Seeking revenge, Adam ...

'' (1918) *'' Cupid Camouflaged'' (1918) *'' The Face at the Window'' (1919) *''

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'' (1919) *'' The Man from Snowy River'' (1920) *''

Robbery Under Arms ''Robbery Under Arms'' is a bushranger novel by Thomas Alexander Browne, published under his pen name Rolf Boldrewood. It was first published in serialised form by ''The Sydney Mail'' between July 1882 and August 1883, then in three volumes in ...

'' (1920) *'' Possum Paddock'' (1921) *'' The Betrayer'' (1921) *'' The Dinkum Bloke'' (1923) *'' The Dingo'' (1923) *''

Prehistoric Hayseeds ''Prehistoric Hayseeds'' is a 1923 Australian film comedy that was written, produced, and directed by Beaumont Smith. It is the sixth in his series about the rural family the Hayseeds and concerns their discovery of a lost tribe. It is considere ...

'' (1923) *''

The Digger Earl ''The Digger Earl'' is a 1924 Australian film comedy from director Beaumont Smith. The plot is about a typical Australian ( Arthur Tauchert) who takes the place of an earl. Only eight minutes of the film survives today.Andrew Pike and Ross Coop ...

'' (1924) *''

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'' (1924) *'' Joe'' (1924) *''

Painted Daughters ''Painted Daughters'' is a 1925 Australian silent film directed F. Stuart-Whyte. Only part of it survives today. Plot In England, Mary Elliott and Courtland Nixon are lovers and dancing partners in a stage show called ''Florodora''. Mary leave ...

'' (1925) *''

Around the Boree Log ''Around the Boree Log'' is a 1925 Australian silent film by Phil K. Walsh adapted from the poems of "John O'Brien" ( Patrick Joseph Hartigan). It tells stories of a priest's life around the 1870s in the Goulburn area.Andrew Pike and Ross Coo ...

'' (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)

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Australian cinematographers 1969 deaths 1885 births {{cinematographer-stub