Joseph Whitley

1816–1891 (age 75)

Biography

Joseph Whitley (17 October 1816 – 12 January 1891) was an English mechanical engineer and metallurgist. He appears in the Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest known film fragment, shot by his son-in-law Louis Le Prince.

He can be seen as the man with the flying tail-coat in Roundhay Garden Scene, walking next to his wife, Sarah.

Whitley died on 12 January 1891, at the age of 74.