Reginald Mills

Reginald " Reggie " Cuthbert Mills ( born July 15, 1912 in London, † July 1990 ) was a British editor who once for the Oscar for the best cut, the price of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) was nominated for Best Editing in a movie as well as a TV movie.

Life

After schooling Mills holds a degree in Modern Languages ​​at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated in 1934. His career as an editor in the film industry he began in 1939 with the staging of John Baxter movie What Would You Do, Chums? , In which Syd Walker, Jean Gillie and Cyril Chamberlain played the lead roles. During the Second World War, he did his military service in the Royal Artillery and served in the air raid on London ( The Blitz ) between September 1940 and May 1941 in an anti-aircraft battery in the Thames Estuary.

At the Academy Awards in 1949 Mills, who worked throughout his lasting until 1977 career with 35 films as an editor, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Editing, and indeed for the ballet film The Red Shoes ( The Red Shoes, 1948) directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger with the main actors Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring. For the resulting 1968 film adaptation of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet ) by Franco Zeffirelli Leonard Whiting as Romeo Montague with and Olivia Hussey as Juliet Capulet 1969, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best film editing.

In 1971, he staged as a director his only own movie Trixis Wonderland ( Tales of Beatrix Potter ), in which he filmed the tale of Beatrix Potter with Frederick Ashton, Alexander Grant and Julie Wood. For his last work as an editor, who also directed by Franco Zeffirelli Bible film Jesus of Nazareth ( Jesus of Nazareth, 1977) with Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, and Ernest Borgnine, he was in 1978 nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing in a TV movie.

Filmography (selection)

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