Sydney Valentine

"The Fairy's Dilemma at the Garrick Theatre", in Play Pictorial, March 1904, showing O. B. Clarence, Sydney Valentine as Mr Justice Whortle, Arthur Bourchier, and Violet Vanbrugh

Sydney Valentine Nossiter (1865 – 23 December 1919), known professionally as Sydney Valentine, was an English actor of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He was President of the Actors' Association and was remembered for negotiating what became the standard contracts for actors in the West End and on tour.

He was born at Kings Norton, Birmingham, in 1865, when his birth was registered with the spelling "Sidney Valentine Nossiter".[1]

  1. ^ Register of Births for the King's Norton Registration District, January–March 1865, volume 6c, p. 456