Jim Clark | |
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| Born | James Clark 24 May 1931 Boston, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 25 February 2016 (aged 84) London, England |
| Education | Oundle School |
| Occupation(s) | Editor, director[1] |
| Notable work | The Killing Fields[1] The Jackal[1] The World Is Not Enough[1] |
| Spouse |
Laurence Méry-Clark (m. 1961) |
| Awards | Academy Award for Film Editing (1985)[2] BAFTA Award for Best Editing (1986)[2] |
Jim Clark (24 May 1931 – 25 February 2016) was a British film editor and film director. He has more than forty feature film credits between 1956 and 2008. Clark directed four feature films along with a handful of short films. Notably, he served as a creative consultant for Midnight Cowboy (1969). His most noted editing credits included Marathon Man (1976), The Killing Fields (1984), and Vera Drake (2004). In 2011, Clark published Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing, a memoir of his career.[1][3]