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Adam Alexander Dawson (20 March 1913 – 29 January 2010) was a noted film and television editor.


Biography

Dawson was born at 33 Royal Terrace,
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, son of Alexander Bashall Dawson and Aileen Twentyman Smithers. He was a descendant of both the Dawson whisky family of St Magdalenes Distillery,
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, and the Gillon whisky family of
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. Dawson was educated at
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, Stowe School, and
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where he was President of the Oxford University Film Society. He joined the
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and from 1942 to 1946, he edited and produced many training films for the Army while in India. He subsequently worked for
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as a Film Editor. While working for the BBC he edited a number of productions, including ''
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'', '' Doctor Who'' and ''
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'', although he refused to have his name in the credits of the latter. Among his films are ''
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'' (1937), '' The Conquest of the Air'' (1940), '' The Glass Mountain'' (1949), ''
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'' (1949), '' Mister Drake's Duck'' (1951), '' A Place in the Country'' (1967), '' The World of Coppard'' (1968), '' The World His Challenge'' (1967), '' The Highland Jaunt'' (1968) and the '' Doctor Who'' serial ''
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'' (1970). He was married three times. His first marriage in 1942 to Nora Francisca Blackburne ended in a divorce in 1946 following Nora's affair with the director Jack Lee, whom she subsequently married.Grove, Valerie. (1999) ''Laurie Lee: The Well-loved Stranger'' Viking. In December 1946 he married Elizabeth Grice, and in 1983 married Pamela Gwyneth Ward (née Owen-Williams).


References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dawson, Adam 1913 births 2010 deaths Film people from Edinburgh People educated at Stowe School Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford British film editors BBC people People educated at Edinburgh Academy British television editors British Army personnel of World War II Television people from Edinburgh Scottish editors