Ralph Kemplen
British film editor (1912–2004)
Ralph Kemplen | |
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Born | (1912-10-08)8 October 1912 London, England |
Died | 4 April 2004(2004-04-04) (aged 91) London, England |
Occupation | film editor |
Children | Willy Kemplen |
Ralph Kemplen (8 October 1912 – 4 April 2004) was a British film editor with more than fifty film credits between 1933 and 1982. Kemplen had a long collaboration with director John Huston (1906-1987) on six films between 1951 and 1966. Kemplen also directed one feature film, The Spaniard's Curse (1958).[1]
Kemplen won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Day of the Jackal (1973) and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (for Moulin Rouge (1952), Oliver! (1968), and Day of the Jackal).
Selected filmography
The director of each film is indicated in parentheses.
- My Heart Is Calling (1935)
- She Shall Have Music (1935)
- Death on the Set (Hiscott-1935)
- The Man in the Mirror (Elvey-1936)
- Dusty Ermine (Vorhaus-1936)
- Young Man's Fancy (Stevenson-1939)
- London Scrapbook (De Marney & Cekalski-1942)
- The Saint Meets the Tiger (Stein-1943)
- Carnival (Haynes-1946)
- Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (Huntington-1948)
- The African Queen (Huston-1951)
- Moulin Rouge (Huston-1952)
- Beat the Devil (Huston-1953)
- Room at the Top (Clayton-1959)
- The Savage Innocents (Ray-1960)
- Freud (Huston-1962)
- The Night of the Iguana (Huston-1964)
- A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann-1966)
- The Bible: In the Beginning... (Huston-1966)
- Oliver! (Reed-1968)
- The Day of the Jackal (Zinnemann-1973) (for which he won the 1974 BAFTA Award).
- The Odessa File (Neame-1974)
- Escape to Athena (Cosmatos-1979)
- The Great Muppet Caper (Henson-1981)
- The Dark Crystal (Henson & Oz-1982)
See also
References
- ^ Ralph Kemplen at IMDb
Further reading
- "Obituary: Ralph Kemplen". The Times(London). 14 April 2004.
- Perkins, Roy; Stollery, Martin (2002). British Film Editors: The Heart of the Movie. BFI Publishing.
Credits for Room at the Top (d. Jack Clayton, 1958) and A Man for All Seasons (d. Fred Zinnemann, 1966) consolidated Kemplen's reputation as a great dialogue editor. On the latter film Zinnemann invited Kemplen to contribute comments not only on the script but also on rehearsals.
- Piper, Jim (2014). The Film Appreciation Book: The Film Course You Always Wanted to Take. Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN 9781621534471. Piper uses a segment from The African Queen that was edited by Kemplen in order to illustrate "Establishing Shots and the Classic Sequence".
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- Tom Priestley (1966)
- No Award (1967)
- Sam O'Steen (1968)
- Hugh A. Robertson (1969)
- John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer (1970)
- Richard Marden (1971)
- Gerald B. Greenberg (1972)
- Ralph Kemplen (1973)
- Richard Chew and Walter Murch (1974)
- Dede Allen (1975)
- Richard Chew, Sheldon Kahn and Lynzee Klingman (1976)
- Wendy Greene Bricmont and Ralph Rosenblum (1977)
- Gerry Hambling (1978)
- Peter Zinner (1979)
- Alan Heim (1980)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (1981)
- Françoise Bonnot (1982)
- Walt Mulconery and Bud S. Smith (1983)
- Jim Clark (1984)
- Michael Chandler and Nena Danevic (1985)
- Jim Clark (1986)
- Claire Simpson (1987)
- Peter E. Berger and Michael Kahn (1988)
- Gerry Hambling (1989)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (1990)
- Gerry Hambling (1991)
- Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1992)
- Michael Kahn (1993)
- John Wright (1994)
- John Ottman (1995)
- Walter Murch (1996)
- Peter Honess (1997)
- David Gamble (1998)
- Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury (1999)
- Pietro Scalia (2000)
- Mary Sweeney (2001)
- Daniel Rezende (2002)
- Sarah Flack (2003)
- Valdís Óskarsdóttir (2004)
- Claire Simpson (2005)
- Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse (2006)
- Christopher Rouse (2007)
- Chris Dickens (2008)
- Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
- Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (2010)
- Chris King and Gregers Sall (2011)
- William Goldenberg (2012)
- Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (2013)
- Tom Cross (2014)
- Margaret Sixel (2015)
- John Gilbert (2016)
- Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos (2017)
- Hank Corwin (2018)
- Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019)
- Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020)
- Tom Cross and Elliot Graham (2021)
- Paul Rogers (2022)
- Jennifer Lame (2023)
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