John Jympson
John Jympson (born September 16, 1930 in London , † June 3, 2003 ibid) was a British film editor .
Life
Jymspson worked as an assistant editor from the late 1940s. He learned the profession from Michael Balcon and William Hornbeck . His father, the journalist Jympson Harman, had helped him into the film business through his own contacts after Jympson left Dulwich College . The 1960 comedy The French Fräulein was his first production as an independent editor. Up to and including 1999 he was responsible for editing more than 45 film and television productions . One director he worked with several times was Brian G. Hutton . After completing the 1999 film Mad Cows, Jympson fell ill with diabetes and left the film business.
Jymspson had originally started editing Star Wars , but was fired by Georg Lucas about halfway through production and replaced by Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas , who eventually won an Oscar for Best Editing for their work with Richard Chew .
In 1989, Jymspson was nominated for the British Academy Film Award in the Best Editing category for his assembly work on A Fish Called Wanda .
Filmography
- 1960: A French Mistress
- 1960: Suspect
- 1961: The Treasure of Monte Cristo
- 1962: The Net (A Prize of Arms)
- 1962: Stork Talk
- 1963: It's All Happening
- 1963: The Man Who Finally Died
- 1964: Zulu
- 1964: Yeah Yeah Yeah
- 1964: A case for Tom Davis (Dingaka)
- 1965: The Bedford Incident (The Bedford Incident)
- 1965: Sands of the Kalahari
- 1966: The Gentleman Zinker (Kaleidoscope)
- 1967: Morocco 7 (Maroc 7)
- 1967: Bobo is the greatest (The Bobo)
- 1968: The Deadfall
- 1968: Agents Die Alone (Where Eagles Dare)
- 1970: Die Krücke (The Walking Stick)
- 1970: Assault Troop Gold (Kelly's Heroes)
- 1971: Flight of the Doves
- 1972: Frenzy
- 1973: The Night of a Thousand Eyes (Night Watch)
- 1973: The Optimists of Nine Elms
- 1974: The circumnavigation (The Dove)
- 1975: The Old Curiosity Shop
- 1976: Frankenstein's haunted castle (Ace Up My Sleeve)
- 1976: The Incredible Sarah (The Incredible Sarah)
- 1977: Smiles of a Summer Night (A Little Night Music)
- 1979: Meetings with Remarkable Men
- 1981: The Condor plot (Green Ice)
- 1981: Riding High
- 1983: Hell Hunt to the End of the World (High Road to China)
- 1984: Palace of the Winds (The Far Pavilions , TV miniseries)
- 1985: Gulag
- 1985: Bad Medicine - Dumber than the doctor allows (Bad Medicine)
- 1986: The Little Shop of Horrors
- 1988: A Fish Called Wanda (A Fish Called Wanda)
- 1988: Red End
- 1989: Big Bad Man (The Mighty Quinn)
- 1990: Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
- 1991: King Ralph
- 1992: Housesitter - Lies have beautiful legs (HouseSitter)
- 1993: And the heirs creep forever (Splitting Heirs)
- 1995: Circle of Friends - In the circle of friends (Circle of Friends)
- 1995: Haunted (Haunted)
- 1997: In & Out
- 1999: Mad Cows
Web links
- John Jympson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Sloman on John Jympson, Obituary 2003, accessed February 24, 2014
- ↑ Tony Sloman on John Jympson, Obituary 2003, accessed February 24, 2014
- ↑ JW Rinzler , in: The Making of Star Wars, 2007, pp. 235f.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jympson, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film editor |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |
DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 2003 |
Place of death | London |