Bernard Gribble

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Bernard Gribble
Born
Bernard J. Gribble

(1927-05-15)15 May 1927
Newhaven, East Sussex, England, UK
Died15 September 2004(2004-09-15) (aged 77)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation Film editor
Years active1945 – 2003

Bernard Gribble (15 May 1927 – 15 September 2004) was a British film editor who, between 1948 and 2003, worked on nearly a hundred theatrical and made-for-TV films. [1] [2] [3]

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Gribble was nominated for ACE Eddie Awards for the editing of two episodes of the television miniseries Ellis Island (1984), and he had been nominated for an Emmy for the television miniseries The Winds of War (1983).

A founding member of the Guild of British Film and Television Editors, Gribble had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors after he moved to Hollywood to work. [4]

Selected filmography (features)

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References

  1. Bernard Gribble at IMDb
  2. "Bernard Gribble". British Film Institute.
  3. "Bernard J .Gribble". Los Angeles Times. 5 December 2004. Death notice.
  4. "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
  5. Perkins, Roy; Stollery, Martin (2004). "Bernard Gribble (1927-2004)". British Film Editors: The Heart of the Movie. BFI Publishing. ISBN   9781844570072.

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