Peter Taylor
Television Editor, Award Winner
1922 – 1997
Who was Peter Taylor?
Peter Taylor was an English film editor with more than 30 film credits. Perhaps his best remembered contribution is the editing of the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai.
In his obituary for Taylor, Tony Sloman gives several examples to illustrate Taylor's editing. He writes:
By 1963 the British New Wave had beached, and Peter Taylor edited the superb This Sporting Life, the debut feature of the cine-literate director Lindsay Anderson. It is a remarkable study of working-class angst, with a cutting style like no other British feature before it, an ever-underrated achievement by Taylor, as Anderson received all the credit, as directors do. This Sporting Life remains, with The Bridge on the River Kwai, the supreme testament to Peter Taylor's craft and talent.
Taylor won an Academy Award for Film Editing for The Bridge on the River Kwai, which was placed as the 36th best American film ever made in the 2007 American Film Institute listing. David Lean directed the film, about whom Ken Dancyger has noted that, "Lean may have made few films, but his influence has far exceeded those numbers. The role of editing in his films may help explain that influence." Lean himself had begun his own career as a film editor. Sloman comments on the relationship of Lean, Taylor, and the film's editing:
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- Born
- Feb 28, 1922
Portsmouth - Also known as
- Peter M. Taylor
- Peter John Brough Taylor
- Spouses
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Employment
- Galloway's Society for the Blind
- Lived in
- Portsmouth
- Died
- Dec 17, 1997
Rome
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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