Bill Lenny
Bill Lenny (born January 5, 1924 in London , † January 7, 1989 ) was a British film editor who was responsible for editing over 45 cinema and television productions in his almost 40-year film career . Including classics of British cinema such as Dracula , The Day on which the Earth caught fire , Casino Royale and Cromwell - War on the King .
life and career
Born in London in 1924, Bill Lenny gained his first experience in 1949 as an editor on the TV short film drama Box for One . In 1952 he got the opportunity to work for the director Desmond Davis and cut his film Stop the Merry-Go-Round . Since 1954 he worked regularly for the British Hammer Film productions after the director Terence Fisher offered him the chance to work on his film Mask of Dust . Other films followed for Hammer Films , including: Yeti, the Snowman by Val Guest and Dracula, the Terence Fisher film adaptation of the horror classic by Bram Stoker with Christopher Lee in the title role.
He was at its most productive during the 1960s and Bill Lenny was editor on a total of 16 films. Including materials from the genre of science fiction such as The Day on which the Earth caught fire , crime films like Daggers in the Kasbah , dramas like 80,000 Suspects , comedies like Richard Lesters Even the little ones want to go up , the James Bond parody Casino Royale from in 1967 or the Western Mackenna's Gold by director J. Lee Thompson .
In the 1970s, Lenny was editor of the Oscar- nominated historical drama about the English Lord Protector Cromwell by director Ken Hughes , the Alistair MacLean film adaptation The Rats of Amsterdam by Geoffrey Reeve and Pope Johanna by Michael Anderson .
Between 1955 and 1980, Bill Lenny worked as an editor for a total of 15 films for his friend the director Val Guest .
His last work was the 1986 American television production Monte Carlo by director Anthony Page with Joan Collins and George Hamilton .
Bill Lenny died on January 7, 1989 at the age of 65.
Awards
- 1979: Emmy nomination for Ike
- 1979: Eddie Award for Ike from American Cinema Editors
- 1980: Eddie Award for Life on the Mississippi from American Cinema Editors
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1952: Stop the Merry-Go-Round
- 1954: The Stranger Came Home
- 1954: Mask of Dust
- 1955: Spy Network Hamburg (Break in the Circle)
- 1957: The Steel Bayonet
- 1957: Yeti, the Snowman (The Abominable Snowman)
- 1958: The Camp on Blood Island
- 1958: Dracula
- 1958: The Snorkel
- 1958: Even More Trouble in the Navy (Further Up the Creek)
- 1959: Friends and Neighbors
- 1959: Expresso Bongo
- 1960: Life Is a Circus
- 1960: Dentist in the Chair
- 1960: The Invisible Shadow (The Full Treatment)
- 1961: Nearly a Nasty Accident
- 1961: The Cream People Talk about (Dentist on the Job)
- 1961: The Day the Earth Caught Fire (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)
- 1962: Hotel Incident
- 1962: Twen hit parade (It's Trad, Dad!)
- 1962: Jigsaw
- 1963: Even the little ones want to go up (The Mouse on the Moon)
- 1963: 80,000 suspects
- 1964: Jungle Beauty (The Beauty Jungle)
- 1965: Daggers in the Kasbah (Where the Spies Are)
- 1967: Casino Royale
- 1968: The Spinner (Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River)
- 1969: Mackenna's Gold
- 1970: Cromwell - War to the King (Cromwell)
- 1971: The Rats of Amsterdam (Puppet on a Chain)
- 1972: Pope Joan (Pope Joan)
- 1974: No shirt and no panties - Confessions of a Window Cleaner
- 1977: Under the Bed
- 1979: Alien Attack - The Aliens Strike (Alien Attack)
- 1980: The Shillingbury Blowers
- 1983: Funny Money (Funny Money)
watch TV
- 1949: Box for One (TV short film)
- 1955: ITV Television Playhouse (TV series)
- 1956: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV series)
- 1966: Danger Man (TV series)
- 1979: Ike (TV miniseries)
- 1981: Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
- 1983: Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV series)
- 1984: The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (TV movie)
- 1985: Florence Nightingale
- 1986: Monte Carlo
literature
Web links
- Bill Lenny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmography of Bill Lenny in: The New York Times
- Films by Bill Lenny with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill Lenny in: Horror Films - Virgin Film , by James Marriott, 2012
- ↑ Bill Lenny in: Hammer Films: The Bray Studio Years , by Wayne Kinsey, Reynolds & Hearn, 2002
- ^ Bill Lenny in: Gregory Peck: A Bio-bibliography , by Gerard Molyneaux, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995, p. 168
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lenny, Bill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1989 |