Sidney Northcote

Sidney Webber Northcote (26 October 1884 – 1952) was an English actor and film director.

Personal life He was born in Seaforth, Liverpool, Lancashire (now Seaforth, Merseyside) on 26 October 1884. He married Kathleen Kerr in Manchester in 1921; they had 3 sons. He died in London in 1952.

Career He was the director of 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 (Plot: "A wounded widow recovers in time to save the 'wrong girl' from being burned at the stake"} The Smuggler's Daughter of Anglesea