Biography
David L. Bretherton (February 29, 1924 β May 11, 2000) was an American film editor with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996.
Bretherton, the son of editor/director Howard Bretherton and actress Dorothea McEvoy, was born in Los Angeles. He served with the United States Air Force during World War II. After World War II, he joined the editing department at Twentieth Century-Fox, at first helping other editors, including Barbara McLean, Robert L. Simpson, Louis R. Loeffler, James B. Clark, William H. Reynolds, and, in later years, Dorothy Spencer and Hugh S. Fowler. His first project as a film editor was An Affair to Remember in 1954. In 1995, Bretherton received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Bretherton died of pneumonia in Los Angeles in 2000.
Bretherton's most noted work was the editing of the film Cabaret (1972), which was directed by Bob Fosse. Bretherton received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, and a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for this film. In his 1972 review, Roger Greenspun gives some insight into Bretherton's achievement:... the film has a musical part and a nonmusical part (except for Miss Minnelli, none of the major characters sings), and if you add this to the juxtaposition of private lives and public history inherent in the scheme of the Berlin Stories, you come up with a structure of extraordinary mechanical complexity. Since everything has to do with everything else and the Cabaret is always commenting on the life outside it, the film sometimes looks like an essay in significant crosscutting, or associative montage. Occasionally this fails; more often it works.
Cabaret was listed as the 30th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
Filmography
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Movies 46
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City Hall (1996)
Malice (1993)
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give (1990)
Sea of Love (1989)
The Pick-up Artist (1987)
Lionheart (1987)
Clue (1985)
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Lovelines (1984)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
Cannery Row (1982)
Caddyshack (1980)
The Big Red One (1980)
Winter Kills (1979)
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
Coma (1978)
Silver Streak (1976)
High Velocity (1976)
Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
The Bank Shot (1974)
Westworld (1973)
Slither (1973)
Save the Tiger (1973)
No Drums, No Bugles (1972)
Cabaret (1972)
Fools' Parade (1971)
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Villa Rides (1968)
The Honey Pot (1967)
The Sandpiper (1965)
The Train (1964)
State Fair (1962)
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Let's Make Love (1960)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
Peyton Place (1957)
Valerie (1957)
The King and Four Queens (1956)
Three Brave Men (1956)
The Dark Wave (1956)
Hilda Crane (1956)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
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Known ForEditing
GenderMale
Birthday1924-02-29
Deathday2000-05-11 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, United States of America
FatherHoward Bretherton
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsAmerican Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award, Academy Award for Best Film Editing
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