Jim Clark (film editor)
| Jim Clark | |
|---|---|
| Born |
James Clark 24 May 1931 Boston, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 25 February 2016 (aged 84) London, England |
| Occupation | Editor, director |
| Notable work |
The Killing Fields The Jackal The World Is Not Enough |
| Spouse(s) | Laurence Méry-Clark (m. 1961) |
| Awards |
Academy Award for Film Editing (1985) BAFTA Award for Best Editing (1986) |
Jim Clark (24 May 1931 – 25 February 2016) was a British film editor with more than forty feature film credits from 1956–2008. Clark has also directed eight features and short films. Among his most recognized films 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.
Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire.
Clark moved to London, and in 1951 he began work as an assistant editor at the legendary Ealing Studios. Subsequently, Clark worked as a freelance assistant editor on two films directed by Stanley Donen and edited by Jack Harris. When Harris declined the opportunity to work on Donen's subsequent film, Surprise Package (1960), Donen gave Clark the job. As Clark later wrote,
It was a fairly bad movie and probably would have finished my career before it had started, but luckily Stanley got another film, The Grass Is Greener (1960), which he also asked me to edit. The cutting of the two films overlapped, which was great training for me. Soon after, I was asked to cut The Innocents (1961) starring Deborah Kerr, which has since become a classic story-driven, supernatural horror film. It was very hard to cut, but that film really put me on the map.
He received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for the editing of The Killing Fields (directed by Roland Joffe-1984); he received a second BAFTA Award for editing The Mission (Joffe-1986). Clark was also nominated for BAFTA Awards for his editing of the films Vera Drake (directed by Mike Leigh-2004) and Marathon Man (directed by John Schlesinger-1976). In 2005, Clark received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.
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