Ian Crafford

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Ian Crafford (born June 11, 1944 in Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire ) is a British film editor who has been responsible for the film editing in cinema and television in around 25 productions in his 30-year film career . Including for classics of international cinema such as The Terror of Medusa , Never Say Never , The Emerald Forest , Field of Dreams or Silent Scream .

life and career

Ian Crafford was born in Hertfordshire in 1944. At the beginning of his career in the 1960s, Crafford still worked as an assistant in film editing, then switched to sound editing for a few years in the early 1970s before returning to film editing in the late 1970s.

In 1978 the old master director Jack Gold entrusted him with the editing of the horror thriller The Horror of Medusa with Richard Burton in the leading role. After this success, director Irvin Kershner hired him in 1983 for the Sean Connery Bond film Never Say Never .

Since the mid-1980s, Crafford has mainly edited film productions from the action, mystery and drama profession. Including for director John Boorman for his three productions The Emerald Forest , Hope and Glory , for which Crafford received a nomination for the BAFTA Award , or The Time of the Colorful Birds . In 1989, Phil Alden Robinson hired him as an editor for his Oscar-nominated baseball drama Field of Dreams .

In the 1990s and 2000s he was editor in charge of film productions such as Silent Scream for director Bruce Beresford , Snow White for Michael Cohn or Where your heart beats and Walker Payne for director Matt Williams.

During his career as an editor, Crafford worked with directors John Irvin , David Anspaugh , Harley Cokeliss , Deran Serafian, Alan Shapiro, Frank Oz , Peter Antonijevic and Michael Apted , among others .

Awards

BAFTA Award

American Cinema Editors Award

  • 1990: Nomination for the American Cinema Editors Award in the category Best Edited Feature Film for Field of Dreams

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ian Crafford in: Selected Takes: film editor on editing. by Vincent LoBrutto, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991, 62
personal data
SURNAME Crafford, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire , England, UK