David Bretherton
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David Bretherton was an American film editor
Film editing
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 with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996.

Bretherton, the son of editor/director
Film director
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 Howard Bretherton
Howard Bretherton
Howard Bretherton was an American film director, film editor, and the father of film editor David Bretherton. He began his career as a propman and then became a film editor during the early 1920s for MGM...

 and actress Dorothea McEvoy, was born in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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. He served with the United States Air Force
United States Air Force
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 during World War II
World War II
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. After World War II he joined the editing department at Twentieth Century-Fox, at first helping other editors, incliding Barbara McLean
Barbara McLean
Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...

, Robert L. Simpson
Robert L. Simpson (film editor)
Robert L. Simpson, A.C.E., was an American film editor.-Biography:Born in Missouri, Simpson began his career at Paramount Pictures in 1935. By the end of the decade, he had joined 20th Century Fox, where he remained for more than 35 years....

, Louis R. Loeffler
Louis R. Loeffler
Louis R. Loeffler was an American film editor. Through his five-decade career, he worked on over one hundred films, including In Old Arizona , In the Meantime, Darling , Laura , The Iron Curtain , How to Marry a Millionaire , River of No Return , and Anatomy of a Murder...

, James B. Clark, William H. Reynolds
William H. Reynolds
William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...

, and, in later years, Dorothy Spencer
Dorothy Spencer
Dorothy Spencer was an American film editor. Nominated for an Academy Award on several occasions she is remembered for editing several of director John Ford's best known movies, including Stagecoach and what film critic Roger Ebert calls, "Ford's greatest Western," My Darling Clementine.She was...

 and Hugh S. Fowler
Hugh S. Fowler
Hugh S. Fowler was an American film editor.Fowler spent his virtually his entire editing career at Twentieth Century-Fox. After spending years helping other film editors, including Louis Loeffler, Barbara McLean, William H...

. His first project as a film editor was An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember
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in 1954 . In 1995, Bretherton received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award
American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award
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. Bretherton died of pneumonia
Pneumonia
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 in Los Angeles in 2000.

Bretherton's most noted work was the editing of the film Cabaret
Cabaret (film)
Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party....

(1972), which was directed by Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse
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. Bretherton received the Academy Award for Film Editing
Academy Award for Film Editing
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, an ACE Eddie Award
American Cinema Editors
Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...

, and a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing
BAFTA Award for Best Editing
The BAFTA Award for Best Editing is one of several annual awards presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . The film-voting members of the Academy select the five nominated films in each category; only the principal editor for each film are named, which excludes additional...

 for this film. In his 1972 review, Roger Greenspun gives some insight into Bretherton's achievement:

Filmography

  • An Affair to Remember
    An Affair to Remember
    An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey. It was distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation....

    (1954)
  • Hilda Crane
    Hilda Crane
    Hilda Crane, also known as The Many Loves of Hilda Crane, is a 1956 drama film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Philip Dunne and produced by Herbert B. Swope Jr. from a screenplay adapted by Dunne from the play by Samson Raphaelson. The music score was by David Raksin and the...

    (1956)
  • Peyton Place
    Peyton Place (film)
    Peyton Place is a 1957 American drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious.-Plot:...

    (1957)
  • Ten North Frederick
    Ten North Frederick (film)
    Ten North Frederick is a 1958 American drama film starring Gary Cooper, written and directed by Philip Dunne. The screenplay is based on the 1955 novel of the same name by John O'Hara.-Plot:...

    (1958)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
  • Return to Peyton Place
    Return to Peyton Place (film)
    Return to Peyton Place is a 1961 drama film produced by Jerry Wald and directed by José Ferrer. The screenplay by Ronald Alexander is based on the 1959 novel Return to Peyton Place by Grace Metalious...

    (1961)
  • State Fair
    State Fair (1962 film)
    State Fair is a 1962 film directed by José Ferrer. The film is a remake of the 1933 and 1945 films of the same name.It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film. It starred Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell, Pamela Tiffin and Alice Faye.Richard Rodgers wrote...

    (1962)
  • The Train (1964)
  • The Sandpiper
    The Sandpiper
    The Sandpiper is a 1965 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, directed by Vincente Minnelli.-Plot:Laura Reynolds is a free-spirited, unwed single mother living with her young son Danny in an isolated California beach house...

    (1965)
  • The Honey Pot
    The Honey Pot
    The Honey Pot, also known as The Honeypot, is a 1967 crime comedy film made by Famous Artists Productions and distributed by United Artists. The film stars Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine, Edie Adams, and Maggie Smith. It was written for the screen and directed by Joseph L....

    (1967)
  • Lovers and Other Strangers
    Lovers and Other Strangers
    Lovers and Other Strangers is a 1970 comedy film based on the play by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. The film features an ensemble cast including Richard Castellano, Gig Young, Cloris Leachman, Anne Jackson, Beatrice Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Harry Guardino, Anne Meara, Bob Dishy,...

    (1970)
  • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
    On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (film)
    On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a 1970 American musical/romantic fantasy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adapted from his book for the 1965 stage production of the same name...

    (1970)
  • Cabaret
    Cabaret (film)
    Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party....

    (1972)
  • Westworld
    Westworld
    Westworld is a 1973 science fiction-thriller film written and directed by novelist Michael Crichton and produced by Paul Lazarus III. It stars Yul Brynner as a lifelike robot in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park, and Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests of the park.Westworld was the...

    (1973)
  • Slither
    Slither (1973 film)
    Slither is a 1973 comedy film starring James Caan. It was directed by Howard Zieff.This was the first screenplay by W. D. Richter, who went on to adapt stories like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Big Trouble in Little China for the screen and directed the cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo...

    (1973)
  • Save the Tiger
    Save the Tiger
    Save the Tiger is a 1973 film about moral conflict in contemporary America. It stars Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker and Liv Lindeland. The film is directed by John G...

    (1973)
  • Bank Shot
    Bank Shot
    Bank Shot is a 1974 film directed by Gower Champion and written by Wendell Mayes . The film stars George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, and G. Wood.-Plot:...

    (1974)
  • The Man in the Glass Booth
    The Man in the Glass Booth
    The Man in the Glass Booth is a 1975 American drama film directed by Arthur Hiller. The screenplay was adapted from Robert Shaw's 1967 novel and 1968 stage play, both of the same name. The plot was inspired by images of the trial of Adolf Eichmann....

    (1975)
  • Silver Streak (1976)
  • That's Entertainment, Part II
    That's Entertainment, Part II
    That's Entertainment, Part II is a 1976 motion picture by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and a sequel to the 1974 documentary That's Entertainment!. Like the previous film, That's Entertainment, Part II was a retrospective of famous films released by MGM from the 1930s to the 1950s...

    (1976)
  • Coma
    Coma (film)
    Coma is a 1978 suspense film based on the novel of the same name by Robin Cook. The film rights were acquired by director Michael Crichton, and the movie was produced by Martin Erlichmann for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

    (1978)
  • Winter Kills
    Winter Kills (film)
    Winter Kills is a 1979 film based on the novel by Richard Condon. Its cast includes Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Richard Boone, Toshirō Mifune, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Ralph Meeker, Elizabeth Taylor, Berry Berenson and Susan Walden.Most of the film was lensed by...

    (1979)
  • The First Great Train Robbery
    The First Great Train Robbery
    The First Great Train Robbery — known in the U.S. as The Great Train Robbery — is a 1979 film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his novel The Great Train Robbery...

    (1979)

    • It's My Turn
      It's My Turn (film)
      It's My Turn is a 1980 romantic comedy-drama film starring Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin.The film was directed by Claudia Weill and written by Eleanor Bergstein...

      (1980 - uncredited)
    • The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
      The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film)
      The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a 1982 film adaptation of the musical of the same name released by Universal Pictures, which was co-written and directed by Colin Higgins...

      (1982)
    • Cannery Row
      Cannery Row (film)
      Cannery Row is the title of a 1982 film directed by David S. Ward. It stars Nick Nolte and Debra Winger.Like the 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream, the movie is adapted from John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday and contains many of the same plot elements...

      (1982)
    • Man, Woman and Child
      Man, Woman and Child
      Man, Woman and Child is a novel by Erich Segal. It details the lives of Robert and Sheila Beckwith and their daughters Jessica and Paula.- Synopsis :...

      (1983)
    • Clue
      Clue (film)
      Clue is a 1985 comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name . The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival mansion, and is styled after Murder by Death and other various murder/dinner parties of mystery...

      (1985)
    • Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
      Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
      Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend is a 1985 American adventure fantasy film directed by Bill L. Norton and starring William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, and Julian Fellowes...

      (1985)
    • The Pick-up Artist
      The Pick-up Artist (film)
      The Pick-up Artist is a 1987 American film written and directed by James Toback. This romantic comedy starred Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA.-Plot:...

      (1987)
    • Sea of Love (1989)
    • Malice
      Malice (film)
      Malice is a 1993 American thriller film directed by Harold Becker. The screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and Scott Frank is based on a story by Jonas McCord.-Plot:...

      (1993)
    • City Hall
      City Hall (film)
      City Hall is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker. Al Pacino and John Cusack star as the Mayor of New York and his idealistic deputy mayor....

      (1996)

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