Biography
Gerry Hambling (14 June 1926 β 5 February 2013) was a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he had also worked as a sound editor and a television editor. Hambling's editing of three films, The Commitments (1991), Mississippi Burning (1988), and Midnight Express (1978), has been honored by BAFTA Awards for Best Editing.
In 1976, Hambling began a notable collaboration with the director Alan Parker that extended over nearly all of Parker's films. The three BAFTA awards noted above were all for films directed by Parker. Chris Routledge has described their collaboration as follows:The collaboration with Parker has ranged widely, from the musical Bugsy Malone, through the partly animated Pink Floyd The Wall, to the grim Angel Heart and the strange story of The Road to Welville. They have been particularly successful with musicals, Hambling's talent for creating the illusion of movement proving useful where musical performances appear in films such as The Commitments, which Lawrence O'Toole called "a great swim for the eyeballs." Perhaps because of their experience in advertising, Parker's slick and striking images combine well with Hambling's intuitive sense of pace and rhythm, for example in the otherwise problematic Fame, and in the much trailed, but poorly received Evita.
In addition to the three BAFTA Awards, Hambling had been nominated for the BAFTA award for three additional films (Fame, Another Country, and Evita). Six films edited by Hambling were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Midnight Express, Fame, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, In the Name of the Father, and Evita). Hambling had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. Mississippi Burning won the ACE Eddie Award, and in 1998 Hambling was honored with the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.
He died in 2013 at the age of 86.
Filmography
all 51
Movies 50
TV Shows 1
The Life of David Gale (2003)
Angela's Ashes (1999)
Talk of Angels (1998)
The Boxer (1997)
Evita (1996)
White Squall (1996)
The Road to Wellville (1994)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)
Rik Mayall Presents: Briefest Encounter (1993)
City of Joy (1992)
The Commitments (1991)
Come See the Paradise (1990)
Lenny Live and Unleashed (1989)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Angel Heart (1987)
Absolute Beginners (1986)
Birdy (1984)
Another Country (1984)
Keep Off The Grass (1983)
Invitation to the Wedding (1983)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Shoot the Moon (1982)
Heartaches (1981)
Fame (1980)
Foxes (1980)
Midnight Express (1978)
The Brute (1977)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
No Hard Feelings (1976)
Moses the Lawgiver (1974)
Footsteps (1974)
Our Cissy (1974)
The Deserter (1970)
Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
The Adding Machine (1969)
The Magnificent Two (1967)
Press for Time (1966)
King and Country (1964)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
The Servant (1963)
Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)
Our School (1962)
She'll Have to Go (1962)
The Kitchen (1961)
Interpol Calling (1959)
Left Right and Centre (1959)
The Whole Truth (1958)
Dry Rot (1956)
Alexander the Great (1956)
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Known ForEditing
GenderMale
Birthday1926-06-14
Deathday2013-02-05 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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