Russell Lloyd

Who was Russell Lloyd?

Russell Lloyd was a British-born film editor who amassed fifty credits on feature films. Lloyd had a notable collaboration with the director John Huston that extended over eleven films. Lloyd was nominated for an Academy Award for Huston's The Man Who Would Be King.

Lloyd's first film with Huston was Moby Dick; Huston was so satisfied with Lloyd's initiative and editing that he subsequently entrusted post-production of the films he directed entirely to Lloyd. Tony Sloman has written, "Lloyd's remarkable relationship with Huston reached its apogee with The Man Who Would Be King in which the editor's and director's styles meshed seamlessly, for both were opposed to the then current trend for overcutting action sequences, and there is a tremendous moment of pure cinema when Sean Connery falls to his doom from a collapsing rope bridge in a single shot."

Lloyd had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.