British cinema pioneers

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both accolade and controversy.

English-American photographer (1830–1904)

Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras (1860-1935)

American film producer (1875–1941)

Scottish Canadian animator (1914-1987)

British filmmaker (1864–1959)

Scottish documentary pioneer (1898–1972)

British photographer and inventor (1855–1921)

British cinema pioneer (1869–1943)

anarchist and inventor (1847–1914)

English film director and film producer (1874-1953)

British photographer and filmmaker (1855-1933)

British inventor and cinematographer (1873–1903)

British nature documentary pioneer (1880-1945)

American stage magician, film director and producer (1875-1958)

British magician and early pioneer of British film (1869–1938)

Anglo-American film producer and entrepreneur

photographer (1832–1905)

English-American film director (1873–1933)

loosely associated group of filmmakers active in the Brighton and Hove area of England 1896-1910

Anglo-American pioneer of cinema and gramophone and collector of ceramics

English engineer and inventor (1874–1952)

British filmmaker (1874–1961)

Instrument maker and inventor

inventor (1880-1941)