Gordon Pilkington
Gordon Pilkington is a British film editor who has edited over 35 cinema and television productions in his 20-year career . Including films like Robin Hood and his daring companions , Whispering Shadows , The Black Devils of El Alamein , Sons and Lovers or A Man Goes His Way .
life and career
Gordon Pilkington began his career as a film editor in 1948 working for director Terence Fisher . In 1952 he edited the Ken Annakin's adventure film Robin Hood and his daring journeymen . Work followed in the following years, such as the knight film Under Black Visor (1954) with Alan Ladd by director Tay Garnett , Lewis Gilbert's thriller Demon of Women (1955) with the cast Dirk Bogarde , Margaret Lockwood and Kay Walsh , the crime film Whispering Shadows (1958 ) by Michael Anderson , Guy Green's war drama The Black Devils of El Alamein (1958) with Richard Attenborough , John Gregson and Michael Craig , the work for Robert Siodmak's film The Bitter and the Sweet (1959) or the James Cagney drama A Handshake of the Devil (1959).
In the 1960s, Pilkington worked as editor for Jack Cardiff's Oscar-winning drama Sons and Lovers , the Edmond T. Gréville production Heiss auf Nackten Steinen , the Gary Cooper and Deborah Kerr thriller A Man Goes His Way (1961) and the adventure films China -Story (1962) with William Holden and We Wait in Ashiya (1964) with Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark . In 1965 he was responsible for the editing of John Boorman's musical comedy Catch Us If You Can! .
Occasionally, Gordon Pilkington was also active as an editor for British television, including in the 1950s with an episode for the Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. series, Presents or in the 1960s with contributions to the agent series Secret Mission for John Drake and The Man Who Never Was with Robert Lansing .
Pilkington ended his career after twenty years in 1968 with his work on Hubert Cornfield's crime drama The evening of the following day with Marlon Brando in the lead role.
Filmography (selection)
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literature
- Gordon Pilkington. In: Nick Thomas: BFI film and television handbook 1995. , British Film Institute, p. 308
Web links
- Gordon Pilkington in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmography by Gordon Pilkington in: The New York Times
- Films by Gordon Pilkington with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gordon Pilkington. In: Brian Hoyle: The Cinema of John Boorman. , Rowman & Littlefield, 2012, p. 243
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| SURNAME | Pilkington, Gordon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |