Lesley Walker

Lesley Walker (born July 1945 in Surrey , England ) is a British film editor .

Life

Although Lesley Walker says she always "always wanted to work with art in some way", it was more by chance that led her to work as an assistant in a small film laboratory. She was an errand boy, worked at reception and from time to time with the negatives . From there, joined Walker as a secretary and an assistant editor at a post-production company where they attach Editor half of commercials and children's films. During this time she worked with Tom Priestley and John Bloom . For Bloom in particular, she assisted in films such as Finale in Berlin , The Lion in Winter and The Forgotten Valley in the following years .

After she was responsible for editing individual commercials at the same time, Walker was allowed to work as an independent editor for A Portrait of the Artist as a young man for the first time in 1977 . Right from the start she edited film dramas. She has worked closely with both Terry Gilliam and Richard Attenborough for decades. Since 1991 she has edited all of Gilliam's film projects as a director with König der Fischer, with the exception of 12 Monkeys and The Cabinet of Dr. Parnassus , for each of which Mick Audsley stood in as editor. After John Bloom no longer worked with Attenborough, Walker also stepped in for her old teacher and took over a project for Attenborough for the first time from 1987 with cry for freedom , which was followed by films such as In Love and War , Gray Owl and Closing the Ring .