John D. Guthridge
John Dominic Guthridge (mostly John D. Guthridge , sometimes JD Guthridge ; born August 4, 1912 in England , † November 1995 in Sussex , England) was a British film editor . In his almost 30-year film career, he was responsible for the film editing of around 35 cinema and television productions , including classics of British cinema such as Ernst sein ist alles , Duel at the wheel and The Straw Puppet .
life and career
John D. Guthridge earned his first spurs in 1948 as editor of Peter Ustinov's directorial debut Vice Versa , a lovable little comedy starring Roger Livesey and Kay Walsh . In the following years he worked for the director Harold Huth , including on It began in Rio , and for the director Harold French , on the romantic comedy Adam and Evelyne , with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons in the leading roles.
In the 1950s Guthridge was also editor in charge of lavishly produced British film classics such as Ernst sein ist alles by Anthony Asquith , Demons of the South Seas by director Ken Annakin or Cy Endfield's highly acclaimed action-psycho-drama Duel at the wheel with Stanley Baker , Herbert Lom and Patrick McGoohan .
During its most productive period, the 1950s, it was used in a total of 18 films. Mainly for dramas and comedies but also for some crime and adventure films. He has worked for such directors as Bernard Knowles , Joseph Lejtes , John Paddy Carstairs , Compton Bennett , Mark Robson , J. Lee Thompson , Philip Leacock , Michael Relph and Roy Ward Baker .
Most of the time he worked in his film career for the two British directors Anthony Asquith and Basil Dearden . For Basil Dearden since The Saphir Girl in 1959 practically uninterrupted until 1965 for a total of 10 productions. Including for the men burglars are honored and the straw doll with Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery .
The artistically and commercially unsatisfactory crime parody Agents Let Ask 1965 with Cliff Robertson , Jack Hawkins and Michel Piccoli was then his last work for Dearden, as this one year later for the Oscar-nominated epic film Khartoum with Charlton Heston in the leading role on Fergus McDonell as editor resorted to what shocked Guthridge so much that he withdrew completely from the film business for ten years.
It was not until the Italian director Gianfranco De Bosio that Guthridge was able to persuade Guthridge to return from his self-imposed retirement because of the abundant amount of film material to be edited for the television miniseries Moses 1975, which was produced especially for Burt Lancaster .
Sidney Hayer's crime drama One Away with Bradford Dillman from the following year was Guthridge's final work as a film editor in 1976.
John Dominic Guthridge died in Sussex County in November 1995 at the age of 83.
Filmography (selection)
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literature
Web links
- John D. Guthridge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmography by John D. Guthridge in: The New York Times
Individual evidence
- ^ John D. Guthridge in: Roy Ward Baker , by Geoff Mayer, Manchester University Press, 2005, p. 198
- Jump up ↑ John D. Guthridge in: The Films of Anthony Asquith , by Rubeigh James Minney, AS Barnes, 1976, p. 261
- ↑ John D. Guthridge in: Liberal directions: Basil Dearden and postwar British film culture , by Paul Wells, Alan Burton, Tim O'Sullivan, Flicks Books, 1997, p. 274
- ^ John D. Guthridge in: The American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films, 1961-1970 - Part 2 , American Film Institute, University of California Press, 1997, p. 604
- ↑ John D. Guthridge in: Michel Piccoli: his films, his life by Heiko R. Blum , Heyne, 1993, page 115
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Guthridge, John D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guthridge, John Dominic (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1995 |
| Place of death | Sussex , England |