Jim Clark (movie editor)
Jim Clark (24 May 1931 – 25 February 2016) was a British movie editor with more than forty feature-movie credits from 1956 to 2008. Clark has also directed eight features and short movies.[1] His best-known works are Midnight Cowboy (as creative consultant-1969), Marathon Man (1976), The Killing Fields (1984), and Vera Drake (2004). In 2011, Clark published Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing, which is a memoir of his career.
Jim Clark | |
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Born | James Clark 24 May 1931 |
Died | 25 February 2016 London, England | (aged 84)
Occupation | Editor, director[1] |
Notable work | The Killing Fields[1] The Jackal[1] The World Is Not Enough[1] |
Spouse(s) | Laurence Méry-Clark (m. 1961; his death 2016) |
Awards | Academy Award for Film Editing (1985)[2] BAFTA Award for Best Editing (1986)[2] |
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