Cecil Hepworth

Cecil Hepworth
Born(1874-03-19)19 March 1874
Lambeth,[1] England
Died9 February 1953(1953-02-09) (aged 78)
Greenford, Middlesex, England
Occupation(s)Film director, film producer
Years active1896–1926

Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Hepworth Studios. In 1923 his company Hepworth Picture Plays went into receivership.

His works include Alice in Wonderland (1903), the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.[2]

  1. ^ Cecil Hepworth at Screenonline
  2. ^ Mills, Ted (31 March 2016). "The First Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (1903)". Open Culture. Retrieved 19 May 2017.