Editing Sydney Box (section)

{{Short description|British film producer and screenwriter (1907–1983)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Sydney Box
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| birth_name         = Frank Sydney Box<ref>[http://www.freebmd.org.uk Births England and Wales 1837-1915]</ref>
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=yes|1907|4|29}}
| birth_place        = [[Beckenham]], [[Kent]], England, UK
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=yes|1983|5|25|1907|4|29}}
| death_place        = Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| occupation         = {{hlist|Film producer|writer|screenwriter|film company co-founder}}
| spouses            = [[Muriel Box]] (1935–1969),<br>Sylvia Knowles
| children           = 1 daughter
| yearsactive        = 1935–1967
}}
'''Frank Sydney Box''' (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer [[Betty Box]]. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company [[Verity Films]] with [[Jay Lewis]].<ref name="Spicer2006">{{cite book|last=Spicer|first=Andrew|title=Sydney Box|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sY1LGFNtCOEC&pg=PA18|access-date=13 April 2012|series=British Film Makers|year=2006|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5999-5|page=18}}</ref>

He produced and co-wrote the screenplay, with his then wife director [[Muriel Box]], for ''[[The Seventh Veil]]'' (1945), which received the 1946 [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for best original screenplay.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Morley |first=Carol |date=2023-02-19 |title=Who was Muriel Box, Britain's most prolific female film director? |language=en-GB |work=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/19/muriel-box-female-film-director-carol-morley-sunday-feature |access-date=2023-02-19 |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>

Sydney and Muriel married in 1935, had a daughter [[Muriel Box#Daughter|Leonora]] the following year, and divorced in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-10-05|title=Power women of the 1950s: Muriel and Betty Box|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/06/women-muriel-betty-box-rachel-cooke-film|access-date=2021-07-15|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>