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name: "Alfred B. Cheetham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alfred-b-cheetham"
fi1m_id: "alfred-b-cheetham"
tmdb_id: 3554058
roles: []
born: "6 May 1866"
died: "22 August 1918"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:04:35.428339+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alfred B. Cheetham

## Identity

Alfred B. Cheetham

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alfred-b-cheetham
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alfred-b-cheetham
- **TMDB ID:** 3554058
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3554058

Actor. Born 6 May 1866 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Died 22 August 1918.

## Details

- **Born:** 6 May 1866, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
- **Died:** 22 August 1918
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3554058

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Great White Silence*](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md) (81)

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## Biography

Alfred B. Cheetham (also known as Alfred Cheetham or Alfred Buchanan Cheetham) was a British mariner and Antarctic explorer. He served as boatswain on Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910–1913) and as third officer on Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod and Imperial Trans-Antarctic expeditions.

He appears as himself in expedition documentaries compiled from contemporary footage, including *The Great White Silence* (1924), directed by Herbert Ponting, and *90° South* (1933). Cheetham was born on 6 May 1866 in Liverpool and died at sea on 22 August 1918 when his ship, SS Prunelle, was torpedoed in the North Sea during the First World War.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Great White Silence* (1924), Fi1m 81, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md)

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