Antony Gibbs (sometimes credited as Tony Gibbs;[a] 17 October 1925 – 26 February 2016) was an English film and television editor with more than 40 feature film credits.[2] He was a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).
Antony Gibbs | |
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 An undated photo of Gibbs | |
| Born | 17 October 1925 |
| Died | 26 February 2016 (aged 90) |
| Occupation(s) | Film and television editor |
| Years active | 1950s–2001 |
Career
editGibbs' editing career began in the mid-1950s as an assistant to Ralph Kemplen and to Alan Osbiston, and through them he became involved with the brief "New Wave" of British filmmaking at its beginnings. In particular Osbiston (and Gibbs) edited The Entertainer (1960), which was directed by Tony Richardson;[3] Richardson was one of the most prominent of the British New Wave directors. Gibbs was then principal editor for several of the subsequent "New Wave" films, including Richardson's A Taste of Honey (1961), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), and Tom Jones (1963),[4] and also The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965), which was directed by Richard Lester.
In his 1995 book, Film and Video Editing, Roger Crittenden notes the influence of this first phase of Gibbs' editing career, "The generation of American editors of which Dede Allen is a part has given considerable credit for the inspiration of their work to Antony Gibbs, the English editor of films directed by, amongst others, Tony Richardson, Nicolas Roeg, and Richard Lester. There is a daring and energetic quality to Tony Gibbs' work, especially in some sequences of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Tom Jones, The Knack, and Performance, which must have given a shot of adrenaline to aspiring editors on both sides of the Atlantic at the time. Dede ascribes her work on Bonnie and Clyde directly to the influence of Tony Gibbs."[5][6] Bonnie and Clyde (1967) "marked a turning point in the editing of feature films that sent reverberations through the entire American cinema."[7]
Gibbs was the "supervising editor" for Richardson's 1965 film, The Loved One, that was produced in Hollywood.[4] Gibbs relocated from England to California in about 1970.[3] From 1971–1989 he had an extended collaboration with Norman Jewison that commenced with the well-received Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and ultimately extended over five films. Gibbs retired from filmmaking in 2001.
Gibbs' editing of Tom Jones (1963) was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie award. Tom Jones won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Richardson received the Academy Award for Best Director for it. Subsequent to his "New Wave" films, Gibbs was nominated four times for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, for the films Performance (directed by Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg-1970), Fiddler on the Roof (Jewison-1971), Rollerball (Jewison-1975), and A Bridge Too Far (Attenborough-1977). Gibbs has never been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Editing. Gibbs was nominated again for ACE Eddie awards for Fiddler on the Roof and, much later in his career, he won Eddie awards for the television films George Wallace (Part II) (1997) and for James Dean (2001). Gibbs had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors,[8] and was the recipient of the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 2002.
Gibbs died on 26 February 2016 at the age of 90.[2]
Filmography as editor
editThis filmography is based on the Internet Movie Database.[9]
| Year | Film | Director | Notes | Ref. |
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| 1960 | The Unstoppable Man | Terry Bishop | ||
| Oscar Wilde | Gregory Ratoff | |||
| During One Night | Sidney J. Furie | First collaboration with Sidney J. Furie | ||
| 1961 | Doctor Blood's Coffin | Second collaboration with Sidney J. Furie | ||
| The Snake Woman | Third collaboration with Sidney J. Furie | |||
| Offbeat | Cliff Owen | |||
| A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | First collaboration with Tony Richardson | ||
| 1962 | Tiara Tahiti | Ted Kotcheff | ||
| The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Tony Richardson | Second collaboration with Tony Richardson | ||
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Third collaboration with Tony Richardson | ||
| 1964 | Girl with Green Eyes | Desmond Davis | Uncredited
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| The Luck of Ginger Coffey | Irvin Kershner | |||
| 1965 | The Knack ...and How to Get It | Richard Lester | First collaboration with Richard Lester | |
| 1966 | Mademoiselle | Tony Richardson | Fifth collaboration with Tony Richardson | |
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sixth collaboration with Tony Richardson | ||
| 1968 | Petulia | Richard Lester | Second collaboration with Richard Lester | |
| The Birthday Party | William Friedkin | |||
| 1970 | Performance | First collaboration with Nicolas Roeg | ||
| All the Right Noises | Gerry O'Hara | |||
| Shangani Patrol | David Millin | |||
| 1971 | Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | Second collaboration with Nicolas Roeg | |
| Fiddler on the Roof | Norman Jewison | First collaboration with Norman Jewison | ||
| 1972 | The Ragman's Daughter | Harold Becker | ||
| 1973 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Norman Jewison | Second collaboration with Norman Jewison | |
| 1974 | The Black Windmill | Don Siegel | ||
| Juggernaut | Richard Lester | Third collaboration with Richard Lester | ||
| 1975 | Rollerball | Norman Jewison | Third collaboration with Norman Jewison | |
| 1976 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea | Lewis John Carlino | ||
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | ||
| 1979 | Yesterday's Hero | Neil Leifer | ||
| 1980 | The Wildcats of St Trinian's | Frank Launder | ||
| The Dogs of War | John Irvin | |||
| 1981 | From a Far Country | Krzysztof Zanussi | ||
| 1983 | Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | First collaboration with Rick Rosenthal | |
| 1984 | Dune | David Lynch | ||
| 1985 | Agnes of God | Norman Jewison | Fifth collaboration with Norman Jewison | |
| 1986 | Tai-Pan | Daryl Duke | ||
| 1987 | Russkies | Rick Rosenthal | Second collaboration with Rick Rosenthal | |
| 1988 | Stealing Home |
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| 1989 | In Country | Norman Jewison | Sixth collaboration with Norman Jewison | |
| 1991 | The Taking of Beverly Hills | Sidney J. Furie | Fourth collaboration with Sidney J. Furie | |
| 1993 | The Man Without a Face | Mel Gibson | ||
| 1994 | Don Juan DeMarco | Jeremy Leven | ||
| 1998 | Ronin | John Frankenheimer | First collaboration with John Frankenheimer | |
| 2000 | Reindeer Games | Second collaboration with John Frankenheimer |
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | A Touch of Larceny | Guy Hamilton | First assistant editor | Uncredited
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| 1965 | The Loved One | Tony Richardson | Supervising editor | Fourth collaboration with Tony Richardson |
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Editorial adviser | ||
| 1978 | F.I.S.T. | Norman Jewison | Supervising editor | Fourth collaboration with Norman Jewison |
| 1979 | Butch and Sundance: The Early Days | Richard Lester | Fourth collaboration with Richard Lester | |
| 1981 | Ragtime | Miloš Forman | Film editor: UK | |
| 2003 | Scorched | Gavin Grazer | Additional editing | |
| 2005 | Sahara | Breck Eisner | Additional editor |
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | A Touch of Larceny | Guy Hamilton | Sound editor |
- TV movies
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Devlin | Rick Rosenthal |
| 1996 | A Case for Life | Eric Laneuville |
| Crime of the Century | Mark Rydell | |
| 1997 | George Wallace | John Frankenheimer |
| 2001 | James Dean | Mark Rydell |
- TV series
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | The Third Man | 3 episodes |
| 1997 | George Wallace | 2 episodes |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Gibbs is billed as "Tony Gibbs" in The Man Without a Face, Don Juan DeMarco, Ronin, and Reindeer Games.[1]
References
edit- ^ "Tony Gibbs". American Film Institute. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
- ^ a b Dagan, Carmel (2 March 2016). "Antony Gibbs, Editor of 'Dune,' 'Fiddler on the Roof,' Dies at 90". Variety.
- ^ a b "Gibbs, Antony Biography". BFI Screenonline. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2010. Based on Perkins, Roy; Stollery, Martin (2004). British Film Editors: The Heart of the Movie. British Film Institute.
- ^ a b Taylor, Charles (30 July 2006). "Richardson's Lively Disaster: Waugh's The Loved One". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 12 March 2008.
Richardson's style changed abruptly with 1963's Tom Jones. He employed a commercialized version of French New Wave techniques, and the film was hugely popular, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. But the jump-cutting, the straight-to-camera digressions and the generally antic tone were wildly inappropriate for an adaptation of an 18th-century novel, and the movie has by now dated to the point of being a curio.
- ^ Crittenden, Roger (28 September 1995). Film and Video Editing, Second Edition. Psychology Press. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-1-85713-011-9.
- ^ LoBrutto, Vincent (1991). Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing. ABC-CLIO. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-275-93395-1.
LoBrutto interview of Dede Allen: Were the films you edited in the 1960s influenced by the changes in film style that were coming from Europe? There was a definite evolution in filmic style, and it came from England. The "angry young men" films that Tony Gibbs cut, Look Back in Anger and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, had more direct influence on me than anything. I loved the way those pictures were cut. It was incorporated into pictures cut in New York like Bonnie and Clyde.
Allen's recollection that Gibbs cut Look Back in Anger (1958) appears to be erroneous; Richard Best edited that film. - ^ Monaco, Paul (2003). Harpole, Charles (ed.). History of the American Cinema Volume 8: The Sixties. University of California Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-520-23804-6.
- ^ "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
- ^ Antony Gibbs at IMDb
- ^ [citation needed]
External links
edit- Antony Gibbs at IMDb