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.
Keith Palmer | |
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| Born | Keith Palmer |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Film editor |
| Years active | 1962 to 2005 |
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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- ^ a b James Chapman, Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series (Oxford University Press, 2015) p. 194
- ^ I Was Happy Here (1966) at bfi.org.uk, accessed 29 November 2017
- ^ Gary A. Smith, Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956–1976 (2006), p. 86
- ^ a b Toby Haggith, Joanna Newman, Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television (2005), p. 289
- ^ Explore the Awards page at bafta.org, accessed 29 November 2017
- ^ a b Back to the Secret Garden, review dated August 29, 2001, in Variety online, accessed 30 November 2017
- ^ Tom Johnson, Mark A. Miller, The Christopher Lee Filmography: All Theatrical Releases, 1948–2003 (2009), p. 246
- ^ Harris M. Lentz, Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits (2001), p. 915
- ^ Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter, Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career (2010), p. 87
- ^ Jerry Roberts, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors (2009), p. 201
External links edit
- Keith Palmer at bfi.org.uk
- Keith Palmer at IMDb
