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Jim Clark (film editor)

British film editor and director (1931–2016)

Summary

British film editor and director (1931–2016)

Field	Value
name	Jim Clark
birth_name	James Clark
birth_date
education	Oundle School
birth_place	Boston, Lincolnshire, England
death_date
death_place	London, England
spouse
awards	Academy Award for Film Editing (1985)
BAFTA Award for Best Editing (1986)
occupation	Editor, director
notable_works	The Killing Fields
The Jackal
The World Is Not Enough

BAFTA Award for Best Editing (1986) The Jackal The World Is Not Enough Jim Clark (24 May 1931 – 25 February 2016) was a British film editor and film director. He has more than forty feature film credits between 1956 and 2008. Clark directed four feature films along with a handful of short films. Notably, he served as a creative consultant for Midnight Cowboy (1969). His most noted editing credits included Marathon Man (1976), The Killing Fields (1984), and Vera Drake (2004). In 2011, Clark published Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing, a memoir of his career.

Early life

Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire and founded the Oundle Film Society in 1947.

Career

Clark moved to London, and in 1951 began work as an assistant editor at Ealing Studios. Subsequently he 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,

He received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for the editing of The Killing Fields (1984, directed by Roland Joffé); he received a second BAFTA Award for editing The Mission (1986, Joffé). Clark was also nominated for BAFTA Awards for his editing of the films Marathon Man (1976, directed by John Schlesinger) and Vera Drake (2004, directed by Mike Leigh). In 2005, Clark received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.

Responding to a question about the major influences on his editing, Clark said

As a director he was responsible for The Christmas Tree (1966), Every Home Should Have One (1970), Rentadick (1972) and Madhouse (1974).

Personal life and memoir

Clark lived in Kensington with his wife Laurence Méry-Clark, likewise a film and television editor. They married in 1961 and had three children. Clark's autobiography Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing was published in 2011, receiving warm reviews from The Guardian and The Observer.

Filmography

As director

The Christmas Tree (1966)
Every Home Should Have One (1970)
Rentadick (1972)
Madhouse (1974)

References

[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164083/awards IMDb]
[http://www.filmreference.com/film/86/Jim-Clark.html Jim Clark Biography (1931-)]
Dagan, Carmel. (1 March 2016). "Jim Clark, Oscar-Winning Editor of 'The Killing Fields,' Dies at 84". Variety.
"City by the Sea: Final Production Information".
Clark, Jim. "Editors in the Spotlight: Jim Clark". Avid Technology, Inc..
(2010). "Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing". Landmarc Press.
Pulver, Andrew. (7 October 2011). "Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing by Jim Clark – review". The Guardian.
French, Philip. (28 July 2011). "Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing by Jim Clark with John H Myers – review". The Observer.
"Most Popular Titles With Jim Clark And John Schlesinger". Internet Movie Database.

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