Background
Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire.
Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire.
lieutenant was a fairly bad movie and probably would have finished my career before it had started, but luckily Stanley got another film, The Grass Is Greener (1960), which he also asked me to edit
Clark has also directed eight features and short films. Among his most recognized films are Midnight Cowboy (as creative consultant-1969), Marathon Manitoba (1976), The Killing Fields (1984), and Vera Drake (2004). In 2011, Clark published Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing, which is a memoir of his career.
Early Clark moved to London, and in 1951 he began work as an assistant editor at the legendary Ealing Studios.
Subsequently, Clark worked as a freelance assistant editor on two films directed by Stanley Donen and edited by Jack Harris. When Harris declined the opportunity to work on Donen"s subsequent film, Surprise Package (1960), Donen gave Clark the job.
As Clark later wrote,
The cutting of the two films overlapped, which was great training for medical Soon after, I was asked to cut The Innocents (1961) starring Deborah Kerr, which has since become a classic story-driven, supernatural horror film.
lieutenant was very hard to cut, but that film really put me on the map.
Clark was also nominated for British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for his editing of the films Vera Drake (directed by Mike Leigh-2004) and Marathon Manitoba (directed by John Schlesinger-1976). Responding to a question about the major influences on his editing, Clark said
Looking back over many years, the American cinema of the 40s was very important to me, along with Hitchcock films and early British comedies with actors like Will Hay and George Formby. Music has also played a major role.
lieutenant influences the rhythm of my editing.
The pacing of a film and its dialogue have a lot to do with music, and the act of going from one shot to another has always fascinated me - when and how you do it, the reason for an edit As a director he was responsible for Rentadick (1972) and Madhouse (1974) starring Vincent Price.
In 2011 Clark"s autobiography Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing was published, receiving warm reviews from The Guardian and The Observer.