Alfredo from Muriel's album

Here's a video of Alfredo in performance (wearing the same jacket).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=57c5utLEyyU

I found out by searching for "alfredo violinist" that his photos are sometimes taken for photographs of the distinguished classical violinist Alfredo Campoli. In fact, they were about the same age and looked very similar, with the exception that this Alfredo had considerably more hair around the time the Pathetone film was made. The Alfredo here was also classically trained. Maybe with the help of a wig Alfredo was leading a double life.

The fellow in your photo was very popular in the UK, where he spent his adult life (he was born Alfred Gill in NYC). Anyway, I suspect one of your forebears was a fan.

Update: Alfredo Campoli performing around the same time as the film of the other Alfredo was taken:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEDcNHCxXDE

Thanks for your research John. Neither performance is to my taste, I am afraid, but it is good to put the photo into context.
Sorry my output isn't very exciting at the moment. I am working on putting together a talk/slideshow on stained glass, due in about 8 weeks, for our fund-raising lecture series. Of course it will only include a small portion of the masses of photos I upload here.

Neither is to my taste, either, Phil.

Stained glass is always interesting. I may even go over to an Anglican church near me that has some interesting stained-glass memorials to soldiers of WWI and take photos of them.

All the best for the talk and slideshow.

I would be interested to see those. We have a strong connection to the WW1 Canadian forces here, as many were posted in camps in and around Seaford. There are 191 WW1 Canadians in our town cemetery, many of whom died of their wounds having returned from the Western Front.
www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26528221/in/album/515827

Thanks, Phil. I didn't know that.