Maurice Elvey (1887–1967) was a prolific film director (of silent pictures especially) and enjoyed a very successful career in that industry lasting many decades. Born William Seward Folkard into a working-class family, Elvey changed his name around 1910, when he was acting. He directed his first film, The Fallen Idol, in 1913. By 1917, when he directed Constance Malleson in Hindle Wakes, he had married for a second time — to a sculptor, Florence Hill Clarke — his first marriage having ended in divorce. Elvey and Colette had an affair during the filming of Hindle Wakes, beginning in September 1917, which caused BR great anguish. In addition to his feeling of jealousy during his imprisonment, BR was worried over the rumour that Elvey was carrying a dangerous sexually transmitted disease. (See Russell, “My First Fifty Years”, RA1 210.007050–fos. 127b, 128; Auto. 2: 37; and Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell, 2: 507.) Colette later maintained that Elvey cleared himself (“Letters to Bertrand Russell from Constance Malleson, 1916–1969”, p. 154). In the typescript he is given the pseudonym of “Paul”. BR removed the allegation from the Autobiography as published (see 2: 37), but in 1918 he remained fearful. After Elvey’s long-lost wartime film The Life Story of David Lloyd George was rediscovered and restored in the 1990s, it premiered to considerable acclaim. See Christine Gledhill, “Elvey, Maurice”, Oxford DNB.