Ray Lovejoy

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Ray Lovejoy (born February 18, 1939 , † October 19, 2001 in London , England ) was a British film editor .

Life

Ray Lovejoy's career in film began as an assistant editor for great films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1963). It was also Stanley Kubrick who hired Ray Lovejoy for the first time as a film editor for his masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey . In 1980 the two worked together again for Shining . Other directors with whom he worked several times are Peter Medak and Peter Yates .

After the rather moderate commercial success of Peter Yates ' fantasy spectacle Krull (1983), Ray Lovejoy received his first and only Oscar nomination in 1986 for James Cameron's Aliens - The Return . 1989 followed with Tim Burton's Batman his probably most commercially successful film as editor. In 1998 he cut his last big budget production with Stephen Hopkins ' Lost in Space . His last film as editor, Vacuums , was released posthumously in 2002. Ray Lovejoy died of a heart attack in London on October 19, 2001. His work includes more than 30 productions for which he was responsible for the film editing .

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SURNAME Lovejoy, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1939
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 2001
Place of death London , England, UK