Ray Lovejoy (18 February 1939 – 18 October 2001) was a British film editor with about thirty editing credits.[1][2] He had a notable collaboration with director Peter Yates that extended over six films including The Dresser (1983), which was nominated for numerous BAFTA Awards and Academy Awards.
Ray Lovejoy | |
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Born | |
Died | 18 October 2001 United Kingdom | (aged 62)
Occupation | Film editor |
Lovejoy was an assistant to editor Anne V. Coates for films from The Horse's Mouth (1958) to Lawrence of Arabia (1962).[3] He was next an assistant to editor Anthony Harvey on Dr. Strangelove (1964), which was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Harvey subsequently became a director himself, and Kubrick promoted Lovejoy to be the editor for his subsequent film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).[4] Kubrick and Lovejoy next worked together on The Shining (1980); Kubrick worked with other editors for his two films from the 1970s.
Stephen Prince described Lovejoy's contributions to 1980s films as follows, "Ray Lovejoy cut Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and he worked again with Kubrick on The Shining and supplied that film with an entirely different--tenser, more foreboding--texture than the stately science-fiction film possesses. Lovejoy also proved adept at editing for blockbuster effect. His cutting in Aliens sustained that sequel's narrative momentum with a speed and tension that its predecessor did not have, and his editing on Batman finessed that film's gaping narrative problems by simply rushing past them."[5]
In 1987, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on the film Aliens (1986).[1] In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild published a list of the 75 best-edited films of all time based on a survey of its members. Two films edited by Lovejoy are on this listing. 2001: A Space Odyssey was listed nineteenth, and The Shining was listed as forty-fourth.[6]
Lovejoy died of a heart attack on 18 October 2001.
Filmography
editThis filmography is based on the Internet Movie Database.[2]
Year | Film | Director | Notes |
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1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | Second collaboration with Stanley Kubrick |
1972 | The Ruling Class | Peter Medak | First collaboration with Peter Medak |
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Second collaboration with Peter Medak | ||
Fear Is the Key | Michael Tuchner | ||
1974 | Little Malcolm | Stuart Cooper | |
Ghost in the Noonday Sun | Peter Medak | Third collaboration with Peter Medak | |
1975 | Never Too Young to Rock | Dennis Abey | |
Side by Side | Bruce Beresford | ||
1980 | The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | Third collaboration with Stanley Kubrick |
1983 | Krull | Peter Yates | First collaboration with Peter Yates |
The Dresser | Second collaboration with Peter Yates | ||
1984 | Sheena | John Guillermin | |
1985 | Eleni | Peter Yates | Third collaboration with Peter Yates |
1986 | Aliens | James Cameron | |
1987 | Suspect | Peter Yates | Fourth collaboration with Peter Yates |
1988 | The House on Carroll Street | Fifth collaboration with Peter Yates | |
Homeboy | Michael Seresin | ||
1989 | Batman | Tim Burton | |
1990 | Mister Frost | Philippe Setbon | |
1991 | Let Him Have It | Peter Medak | Fourth collaboration with Peter Medak |
1992 | Year of the Comet | Peter Yates | Sixth collaboration with Peter Yates |
1993 | A Far Off Place | Mikael Salomon | |
1994 | Monkey Trouble | Franco Amurri | |
1995 | Mrs. Munck | Diane Ladd | |
Rainbow | Bob Hoskins | ||
1996 | The Last of the High Kings | David Keating | |
1997 | Inventing the Abbotts | Pat O'Connor | |
1998 | Lost in Space | Stephen Hopkins | |
1999 | Running Free | Sergei Bodrov | First collaboration with Sergei Bodrov |
2001 | The Quickie | Second collaboration with Sergei Bodrov | |
2002 | Vacuums |
Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
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1957 | Time Lock | Gerald Thomas | Second assistant editor | Uncredited
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1958 | The Horse's Mouth | Ronald Neame | Assistant editor | |
1960 | Tunes of Glory | |||
1961 | Don't Bother to Knock | Cyril Frankel | ||
1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | ||
1964 | Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick | First collaboration with Stanley Kubrick | |
1965 | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | Martin Ritt | Uncredited
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- Documentaries
Year | Film |
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1976 | Radio 1 on the Road |
Year | Film | Director | Credit |
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1976 | Radio 1 on the Road | Himself | Producer |
- TV series
Year | Title | Notes |
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1977 | Space: 1999 | 1 episode |
1996 | Kindred: The Embraced |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Ray Lovejoy". Turner Classic Movies.
- ^ a b Ray Lovejoy at IMDb
- ^ Lewis, Kevin (March–April 2010). "COATES of Many Colors: The Varied Career of Anne V. Coates". Editors' Guild Magazine. 31 (2).
- ^ Lobrutto, Vince (1999), Stanley Kubrick: A Biography, Da Capo, p. 307, ISBN 978-0-306-80906-4. Reprint of 1997 edition.
- ^ Prince, Stephen (2002). A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow 1980-1989 (Volume 10 of History of the American cinema). University of California Press. p. 196.
- ^ "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015.
External links
edit- Ray Lovejoy at IMDb
- Stanley Kubrick - 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) - Making of a Myth on YouTube includes interview footage with Lovejoy.