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.
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| Born | Keith Palmer |
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| Nationality | British |
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| Occupation | Film editor |
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| Years active | 1962 to 2005 |
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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]
- Station Six-Sahara (1962), dubbing editor
- I Was Happy Here (1966), assistant film editor
- 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1967), sound mixer
- Shalako (1968), sound editor
- The Strange Affair (1968), dubbing editor
- Hello-Goodbye (1970), sound editor
- Wake in Fright (1971), sound editor
- I Start Counting (1970), film editor
- Nothing But the Night (1972), film editor[7]
- And No One Could Save Her (1973), film editor
- Blue Blood (1973), film editor[8]
- S*P*Y*S (1974), film editor
- I Don't Want to Be Born (1975), film editor
- Emily (1976), film editor
- Welcome to Blood City (1977), film editor
- The Uncanny (1977), film editor
- Charlie Muffin (1979), film editor
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980), film editor
- Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), film editor
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982), film editor
- Praying Mantis (1983), film editor
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- The Lonely Lady (1983), film editor
- Sakharov (1984), film editor
- Wild Geese II (1985), film editor[9]
- Bad Medicine (1985), film editor
- Murrow (1986), film editor[10]
- Escape from Sobibor (1987), film editor[4]
- The Secret Garden (1987), film editor
- Stones for Ibarra (1988), film editor
- Hands of a Murderer (1990), film editor
- Iran: Days of Crisis (1991), film editor
- The Winter Stallion, or The Christmas Stallion (1992), film editor
- The Lucona Affair [de] (1993), film editor
- Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (1998), film editor
- Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998), film editor
- Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999), film editor
- Oklahoma! (1999), film editor
- Back to the Secret Garden (2001), film editor[6]
- Hornblower: Mutiny (2002), film editor
- Hornblower: Retribution (2002), film editor
- Hornblower: Loyalty (2003), film editor
- Hornblower: Duty (2003), film editor
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- Strange Report (1969), film editor
- Shirley's World (1971), film editor
- Doomwatch (1972), film editor
- Quatermass (1979), film editor
- Hart to Hart, two episodes (1983, 1984), film editor
- Jack the Ripper, two episodes (1988), film editor
- Covington Cross, one episode (1992)
- Spender, Christmas Special - The French Collection (1993), film editor
- Scarlett, miniseries (1994), film editor
- Sharpe's Mission (1996), film editor
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- Sharpe's Siege (1996), film editor
- Sharpe's Regiment (1996), film editor
- Sharpe's Waterloo (1997), film editor
- Sharpe's Justice (1997), film editor
- Sharpe's Revenge (1997), film editor
- Kavanagh QC, two episodes (1997), film editor
- Wire in the Blood, The Mermaids Singing (2002), film editor
- Wire in the Blood: Right to Silence and Still She Cries (2003), film editor
- Rose and Maloney, two episodes (2004), film editor
- Wire in the Blood: Nothing But the Night (2005), film editor
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James Chapman, Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series (Oxford University Press, 2015) p. 194
Gary A. Smith, Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956–1976 (2006), p. 86
Toby Haggith, Joanna Newman, Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television (2005), p. 289
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
