Thelma Connell

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Thelma Connell , initially also Thelma Myers , (born June 30, 1912 in London , United Kingdom , † April 29, 1976 in Monaco ) was a British film editor . She was one of the most important editors of British film from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Thelma Connell began her career as a script girl in the 1930s, before moving to film editing as an assistant and taking part in major British propaganda films such as One of Our Aircrafts is Missing and In Which We Serve in the early 1940s . In 1943 she was also involved as an assistant editor in the extremely successful color film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , a life panorama lasting over two and a half hours.

As an independent editor, Thelma Connell edited well-kept and cultivated A-entertainment productions with popular British film actors, including The Last Sin , The Dirty Sparrow and the Queen , The Seducer Greetings , Call for a Dead and the James Bond film Man over the next three decades only lives twice . At the beginning of her career she was also commissioned several times to finalize the work of the directing duo Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder . An isolated excursion to direct an Adventure Theater episode ( Tale of Three Women ) in 1954 had no consequences for Thelma Connell.

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SURNAME Connell, Thelma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Myers, Thelma; Dunaway, Thelma Balle (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1976
Place of death Monaco