Lewin "Fitz" Fitzhamon (5 June 1869 – 10 October 1961) was a British filmmaker, who worked as Cecil Hepworth's principal director in the early decades of the twentieth century.
[3] Cecil Hepworth recruited Fitzhamon as a stage manager in 1904, to replace Percy Stow, who had left to establish his own film company, Clarendon.
[3] He directed Prehistoric Peeps (1905), the first depiction of onscreen dinosaurs in film history, portrayed by actors inside pantomime models.
[4] Fitzhamon, like Hepworth, had an interest in special effects, producing many "trick films", including Sister Mary Jane's Top Note (1907) and The Man and his Bottle (1908).
Luke McKernan has described how many of his films had "no concern except to get the central trick effect or plot idea across, but their very lack of pretension makes for pleasurable viewing now".