Peter James Sisam

Peter James Sisam (19 December 1914 – 20 April 2015) was an English photographer and film director. From his undergraduate days, when he joined the Oxford Group, he was involved with the Moral Re-Armament movement. Life He was born on 19 December 1914, the son of Walter Sisam (1882–1943) and his wife Catherine Nellie Fincher, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon. He matriculated at St Peter's Hall, Oxford in 1933, and read English Literature. His involvement with the Oxford Group came about through conversation with Kenneth Prebble. He left with a pass degree. Sisam was given a chance to work in film, as a volunteer, by Eric Parfit. It was on Bridgebuilders, about the Oxford Group outreach and anti-communist mission in Scandinavia. It led to further work in 1937 on Youth Marches On, set in Canada and England. At the beginning of World War II, Sisam was rejected for military service on health grounds. He worked in London for the Civil Defence Force. The shortage of film work led him to learn photography as a profession. After the war he was editor of New World News, an MRA magazine established in 1948.