Russell Lloyd (16 January 1916 – 21 January 2008) was a British film editor who amassed fifty credits on feature films. Lloyd had a
notable collaboration with the director
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston ( ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered ...
that extended over eleven films. Lloyd was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, ...
for Huston's ''
The Man Who Would Be King
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'' (1975).
[ Sloman, Tony (2008)]
"Russell Lloyd: John Huston's film editor, who began his career with Korda"
obituary published in ''The Independent'' January 25, 2008; online version retrieved June 17, 2008.
Lloyd's first film with Huston was ''
Moby Dick
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'' (1956); Huston was so satisfied with Lloyd's initiative and editing that he subsequently entrusted post-production of the films he directed entirely to Lloyd.
Tony Sloman
Anthony B. Sloman (born 6 May 1945 in Waltham Abbey, Essex) is an English film producer and screenwriter.
Tony Sloman is a cinema critic and historian, whose long career has encompassed many facets of film making. He has worked intermittently ...
has written, "Lloyd's remarkable relationship with Huston reached its apogee with ''
The Man Who Would Be King
"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was first published in '' The Phantom Rickshaw and other Ee ...
'' (1975) in which the editor's and director's styles meshed seamlessly, for both were opposed to the then (and still) current trend for overcutting action sequences, and there is a tremendous moment of
pure cinema
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when Sean Connery falls to his doom from a collapsing rope bridge in a single shot."
Lloyd had been elected to membership in the
American Cinema Editors
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.
"American Cinema Editors - Members"
webpage archived by WebCite fro
on 2008-03-04.
Selected filmography
* ''Whirlpool
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'' (1959)
See also
*List of film director and editor collaborations
This list of film director and editor collaborations includes longstanding, notable partnerships of film director, directors and film editor, editors. The list's importance is that directors and editors typically work together on the film editing, ...
References
External links
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1916 births
2008 deaths
American film editors
American Cinema Editors
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