Career
Foreign the opera singer with a similar name, see Grahame Clifford. His second feature outing was the Australian historical adventure-drama which was chosen as a participant in the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. He followed up with the contemporary action-suspense drama, starring Christian Slater, and Deception (aka ), starring Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson and Viggo Mortensen.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Clifford obtained his wide-ranging experience in editing, special effects, sound recording/mixing, animation and assistant directing at Artransa Park, Sydney"s only film studio for many years.
In 1964 he moved to London and worked at the British Broadcasting Corporation in their editing department. He then moved to Canada where he worked for Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics as an editor making commercials and documentaries in Vancouver.
While there he met Robert Altman and got a job assisting editing on That Cold Day in the Park. Altman liked the work he did and invited Clifford to Los Los Angeles
Clifford"s collaborations with Altman include M*A*South*H, McCabe and Mistress
Miller, Images and The Long Goodbye. Clifford"s other feature editing credits include Norman Jewison"s F.I.S.T., Sam Peckinpah"s Convoy, Bob Rafelson"s The Postman Always Rings Twice and the cult-classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Clifford"s television directorial credits are many and varied.
They include episodes of Joan of Arcadia, The Guardian, Twin Peaks and Faerie Tale Theatre, and the movies (Kirstie Alley, Delroy Lindo), (Aidan Quinn, Marcia Gay Harden), (Matthew Modine), Past Tense (Scott Glenn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Anthony LaPaglia) and Mario Puzo"s Parts I and II, an Emmy-nominated 10 hour mini-series (Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna, Jason Gedrick, Daryl Hannah).
