Ray Selfe was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, actor and movie theatre owner.
[1][2] Selfe was born into a working-class family in Croydon, Surrey and at the age of ten found a passion for film.
[1] Selfe was later expelled from Pitman's College at the age of fourteen and became a projectionist at a local movie theatre and ran a mobile cinema, taking film shows to youth clubs.
[1] As a filmmaker, Selfe later went on to work on such films as Four Dimensions of Greta (1972), White Cargo (1973), Emmanuelle in Soho (1981) and Don't Open till Christmas (1984).
[1] During Selfe's later years, he gained respect within the industry as a private film archive curator.