Keith Palmer (film editor)

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Keith Palmer
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Keith Palmer
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Years active1962 to 2005

Keith Palmer (born 1942) is a British film editor, best known for the Sharpe and Hornblower television movies, but active in feature films since the 1960s.

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He won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1999. [1]

Palmer began his career in 1962 as dubbing editor on Station Six-Sahara . Through the 1960s into the early 1970s he worked as a sound mixer or editor, on films including 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1967), Shalako (1968), The Strange Affair (1968), Hello-Goodbye (1970) and Wake in Fright (1971). In 1966 he was assistant editor on I Was Happy Here . [2]

Palmer's first work as a full film editor came in 1969, on the first eight episodes of Strange Report , a new television drama series starring Anthony Quayle. His early films as an editor were I Start Counting (1970) and Nothing But the Night (1972), and he was also editor for the BBC television series Doomwatch (1972). [3] Thereafter, Palmer almost invariably worked as editor, several times on films made by Peter Sasdy and Jack Gold. In 1987 an unusual challenge came with Escape from Sobibor . [4]

In 1999 Palmer received the Primetime Emmy Award (Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie) for Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998), [1] and for the same movie he was also nominated for a BAFTA Television Award (Best Editing, Fiction/Entertainment). [5]

Having edited The Secret Garden (1987), fourteen years later Palmer was called on to work on the sequel Back to the Secret Garden (2001). [6]

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Television

Notes

  1. 1 2 James Chapman, Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series (Oxford University Press, 2015) p. 194
  2. ↑ I Was Happy Here (1966) at bfi.org.uk, accessed 29 November 2017
  3. ↑ Gary A. Smith, Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956–1976 (2006), p. 86
  4. 1 2 Toby Haggith, Joanna Newman, Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television (2005), p. 289
  5. ↑ Explore the Awards page at bafta.org, accessed 29 November 2017
  6. 1 2 Back to the Secret Garden, review dated August 29, 2001, in Variety online, accessed 30 November 2017
  7. ↑ Tom Johnson, Mark A. Miller, The Christopher Lee Filmography: All Theatrical Releases, 1948–2003 (2009), p. 246
  8. ↑ Harris M. Lentz, Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits (2001), p. 915
  9. ↑ Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter, Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career (2010), p. 87
  10. ↑ Jerry Roberts, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors (2009), p. 201

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