While at Close Up, he very much became a protégé of Kenneth Macpherson, the publication’s editor, and contributed more articles than any other single writer-a total of 84 he contributed to all but four of the journal's issues. At age 16 he ran away, becoming a conjuror’s *istant, a cinema organist and studio clapperboy.īlakeston joined the staff of Close Up, the magazine of the Pool Group, in August 1927. Lifeīlakeston was born to a family of Austrian origin. His pseudonym combined a reference to the writer Osbert Sitwell with his mother's maiden name. He was also a poet and wrote in non-fiction areas including travel, cooking and pets. Oswell Blakeston was the pseudonym of Henry Joseph H*lacher (1907–1985), a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry, made some experimental films, and wrote extensively on film theory.
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