Henry Richardson (film editor)
Henry William Richardson (13 January 1931 – 31 July 2017) was an English film editor. He was born and raised in the East End of London and educated at Hackney Downs School. He started working in the film industry when he left school at the age of 18. He got into the cutting room as a second assistant editor on Ken Annakin's "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" at 21 years old. Some of his earliest films as a film editor were "Man on the Beach" directed by Joseph Losey in 1956 and "Ten Seconds to Hell" directed by Robert Aldrich in 1959.
He went on to edit over 65 films in England, the U.S., Canada, Russia, France, Germany, Poland and Italy. Over the course of his long career, he worked with visionary filmmakers such as Ray Harryhausen, Terence Young, Freddie Francis, Alan Hume, Ivan Tors, Ken Hughes and John Glen. He edited two James Bond films, "Octopussy" and "A View to a Kill".
Richardson collaborated with the Russian film and theatre director, Andrei Konchalovsky on six films, most notably "Runaway Train", (starring Jon Voight), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1986 .[1], as well as for an Eddie Award American Cinema Editors.
He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the American Cinema Editors (ACE).
Henry Richardson died on 31 July 2017 in London, and is buried at Western Jewish Cemetery, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
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