Robert C. Jones

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Robert Clifford Jones (* thirtieth March 1936 in Los Angeles , California ; † 1. February 2021 ) was an American film editor and screenwriter , who at the Academy Awards in 1979 along with Nancy Dowd and Waldo Salt the Oscar for best original screenplay received .

Life

Jones began working as an editor for film productions in the 1960s and first worked on A Child Waiting for John Cassavetes in 1963 to help create a film. In the decades that followed, Jones was responsible for editing over 30 other films .

For A total, total crazy world (1963) by Stanley Kramer , he was nominated at the 1964 Academy Awards with Frederic Knudtson and Gene Fowler Jr. for the Oscar for best editing as well as for the Eddie of the American Cinema Editors . Another nomination for the Oscar for Best Editing and Eddie followed in 1968 for Stanley Kramer's Advice Times Who Comes to Dinner (1967). A third nomination for an Academy Award for Best Editing followed with Pembroke J. Herring at the 1977 Academy Awards for This Land is My Country (1976) by Hal Ashby .

Further work as editor followed with Meeting Point for Two Pistols (1964) by Richard Wilson , Das Narrenschiff (1965) by Stanley Kramer, Let me kiss your butterfly (1968) by Hy Averback , Cisco Pike (1972) by Bill L. Norton , Das Last Command (1973) by Hal Ashby, Shampoo (1975) by Hal Ashby, Days of Thunder (1990) by Tony Scott , Dinner for Six - Woodstock meets Wallstreet (1991) by Arthur Hiller and Bulworth (1998) by Warren Beatty .

In 1979 he and Nancy Dowd and Waldo Salt received the Oscar for the best original screenplay for Coming Home - Sie kehren heim (1977/78) by Hal Ashby. Together with Salt, he not only won the Writers Guild of America Award (WGA Award) for best original screenplay, but was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best film script. Another collaboration with Ashby was for the film Welcome Mr. Chance (1979), for which Jones again wrote the script.

His father Harmon Jones was already active as a film editor and his daughter Leslie Jones is also active in this field.

Jones died at his Los Angeles home on February 1, 2021. He suffered from Lewy body dementia .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Remembering Esteemed SCA Professor Robert C. Jones . University of Southern California. February 3, 2021.
  2. ↑ a b Mike Barnes: Robert C. Jones, 'Love Story' Film Editor and Oscar-winning 'Coming Home' Screenwriter, Dies at 84 . In: The Hollywood Reporter , February 6, 2021. Retrieved February 7, 2021. 
  3. ↑ Article on variety.com, accessed February 10, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Robert C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Robert Clifford (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION American film editor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2021
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States