BERNSTEIN, SIDNEY LEWIS, BARON
- BERNSTEIN, SIDNEY LEWIS, BARON
- BERNSTEIN, SIDNEY LEWIS, BARON (1899–1993), British
television pioneer and publisher. Born in Ilford, Essex, Bernstein
inherited his interest in show business from his father, Alexander
Bernstein (d. 1921), who owned a group of cinemas. Sidney Bernstein was
a founder of the Film Society in 1924, and started his Granada chain of
cinemas at Dover in 1930. During World War II he was film
adviser to the British Ministry of Information (1940–45) and chief of
the film section, SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied
Expeditionary Force; 1943–45). Bernstein introduced additional
entertainments into his cinemas, including art exhibitions, and
established links with Hollywood. However, his most important interest
eventually became the Granada group of television companies operating
mainly from Manchester. Bernstein had seen the possibilities of
television in 1948 but could not obtain a license until the British
Television Act of 1954. The Granada companies made many endowments to
universities. He and his brother, Cecil Bernstein (a fellow director),
gave £300,000 in 1965 for the establishment of a Northern Arts and
Sciences Foundation. After 1961 he acquired a substantial interest in
the publishing companies of Rupert Hart-Davis, McGibbon and Kee, and
several others. A Labour supporter, he was awarded a life peerage in
1969.
-ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
C. Moorehead, Sidney Bernstein: A Biography (1984); J.
Tinker, Television Barons (1980); ODNB online.
(John M. Shaftesley)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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