Alfred Roome

Alfred Wallace Roome (born December 22, 1908 in London , United Kingdom , † November 19, 1997 in Gerrards Cross , United Kingdom) was a British film editor who also appeared twice as a film director .

Live and act

Roome's father worked in a managerial position at the Daily Mirror and was less than enthusiastic when his son Alfred told him that he wanted to go into the film business. Roome Jr. started in the props department at Elstree Studios in 1927 and got to know the industry from the bottom up. The following year, director and producer Herbert Wilcox fulfilled Roome's wish to become editor and brought him to the editing department as an assistant . Another year later, Roome was behind the camera as an assistant on Alfred Hitchcock 's first sound film, Blackmail . In the same year, Alfred Roome met actress Janice Adair (1905-1996), with whom he was married until her death in 1996. Since 1933, Alfred Roome worked regularly in the editing departments of British production companies, starting with Gaumont British.

His early work was cheaply made comedies; for more expensive productions such as A Lady disappears , Kipps and The Young Mr. Pitt , he remained subordinate to his more experienced professional colleague RE Dearing. At the same time, during the Second World War , he worked for the British Ministry of Information and edited short propaganda documentaries. In 1944 Roome returned to the cinema and initially worked for Gainsborough Studios. In 1948 Gainsborough's Roome was also employed twice as a director (the comedy “It's Not Cricket” and the crime drama “My Brother's Keeper”) as well as a producer and production manager. After this work received little response, Alfred Roome concentrated entirely on film editing again in the early 1950s. In the following quarter of a century, he mainly assembled productions by Ken Annakin in the 1950s and the comedies by the brothers Ralph and Gerald Thomas in the 1960s and 1970s . For the latter, he edited all works of the Carry-On film series from 1967 to 1975 . Roome then retired.

Filmography

1932: Thark

1934: Dirty Work

1935: Foreign Affaires

1935: Stormy Weather

1936: Pot Luck

1936: The Man Who Changed His Mind

1937: Otto, put the brakes on! (Oh, Mr Porter!)

1937: Said O'Reilly to McNab

1938: Alf's Button Afloat

1938: Shipyard Sally

1939: Where's That Fire?

1940: Channel Incident (short documentary)

1941: A Letter From Home (short film)

1941: Rush Hour (short film)

1944: Waterloo Road

1945: Music Pirates (I'll Be Your Sweetheart)

1946: Paganini (The Magic Bow)

1947: Pirate Love (The Man Within)

1947: Have fun (Holiday Camp)

1948: My Brother's Keeper (Director)

1948: It's Not Cricket (Director)

1949: A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (co-production)

1950: That's Life (Trio)

1950: Highly Dangerous

1951: Hotel Sahara

1951: Dakapo (Encore)

1951: The Smuggler Princess (Penny Princess)

1952: White Woman in the Jungle (The Planter's Wife)

1953: Endstation Harem (You Know What Sailors Are)

1954: The Million Baby (To Dorothy a Son)

1955: The Woman for Joe

1956: The Black Tent

1956: You got a pig again (The Big Money)

1957: Across the Bridge

1957: Two cities (A Tale of Two Cities)

1958: Velaba calls! (Nor the Moon by Night)

1959: Upstairs - Downstairs (Upstairs and Downstairs)

1959: The 39 Steps (The 39 Steps)

1959: Conspiracy of Hearts (Conspiracy of the Hearts)

1960: Love three times a day (Doctor in Love)

1960: And tomorrow everything (No love for Johnnie)

1961: She has the last word (A Pair of Briefs)

1962: Police spies X 2 (The Informers)

1963: Doctor in Distress

1963: Some like it secret (Hot enough for June)

1964: Fair game under hot sun (The High Bright Sun)

1966: Help, she doesn't love me! (Doctor in Clover)

1966: Hot Cats (Deadlier than the Male)

1967: It's crazy - no water flows in the desert ( Follow that Camel )

1967: Carry On Doctor ( Carry On Doctor )

1968: Everything under control - nobody looks through ( Carry On up the Khyber )

1969: The Totally Crazy Camping Paradise ( Carry On Camping )

1969: Carry On Again Doctor ( Carry On Again Doctor )

1970: The Mad Queen of the Amazons ( Carry On Up the Jungle )

1970: Love, Love, etc. ( Carry On Loving )

1971: Heinrichs Bettgeschichten or How Garlic Came to England ( Carry On Henry )

1971: A strike rarely comes alone ( Carry On At your Convenience )

1972: Bless This House

1972: The Totally Mad Head Nurse ( Carry On Matron )

1972: Carry On Abroad ( Carry On Abroad )

1973: Vote in English ( Carry On Girls )

1974: Go on, Dick! ( Carry On Dick )

1975: The total verrückte mummy Schreck ( Carry On Behind )

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personal data
SURNAME	Roome, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roome, Alfred Wallace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British film editor and director
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 1997
Place of death	Gerrards Cross , United Kingdom