Bill Lenny
Bill Lenny ( born January 5, 1924 in London, † 7 January 1989) was a British editor at film which served as sectional champion in his almost 40-year film career over 45 film and television productions. Including classics of British cinema as Dracula, The Day the Earth caught fire, Casino Royale or Cromwell.
Life and career
Born in 1924 in London, Bill Lenny gained his first experience as an editor in 1949 for the TV Short Film Drama Box for One. In 1952 he got the opportunity for the director Desmond Davis to work and cut his film Stop the Merry- Go-Round. Since 1954, he then worked regularly for the British Hammer Film Productions, after the director Terence Fisher had commanded him the chance to collaborate on his film Mask of Dust. There were other films for Hammer Films, including: Yeti, the Abominable Snowman by Val Guest and Dracula Terence Fisher the film adaptation of the horror classic by Bram Stoker Christopher Lee in the title role.
During the 1960s he had his most productive phase and Bill Lenny came in a total of 16 films as an editor to use. Among these substances from the genre of science fiction as The Day the Earth caught fire, crime films like daggers in the Kasbah, dramas like 80,000 Suspects, comedies such as Richard Lester's The little ones want to move up, the James Bond spoof Casino Royale from 1967 or the Western Mackenna's Gold, directed by J. Lee Thompson.
In the 1970s, Lenny served as cutter then including the Oscar -nominated period drama to the English Lord Protector Cromwell by director Ken Hughes, Alistair MacLean adaptation Rats of Amsterdam by Geoffrey Reeve and Pope Joan by Michael Anderson.
For his friend the director Val Guest Bill Lenny was between the years 1955 and 1980 a total of 15 films as an editor in use.
The U.S. television production Monte Carlo from director Anthony Page with Joan Collins and George Hamilton finally was Lenny's last work as a cutter in 1986.
Bill Lenny died on 7 January 1989 at the age of 65.