- Owner of film production company Mancunian Films.
- Father of Tom Blakeley and John E. Blakeley Jr..
- Grandfather of Mike Blakeley.
- Great-grandfather of Matthew Blakeley.
- Born in 1889 into of a family of cinema owners and film renters in the North West. Co-founder of Mancunian Films in Manchester, their output distributed through a company called Butchers Films. Blakeley starred many north-country music hall performers in his films and is credited with making George Formby into a star. His slapstick comedies remained popular throughout the 1940s and into the early 1950s. The studio was acquired by the BBC in 1954 and eventually demolished in 1967.
- Father-in-law of Frank P. Atherton.
- Started Film Studios Manchester, a production company, in 1947.
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