Keith Palmer (film editor)

Keith Palmer (born 1942) is a British film editor, best known for the Sharpe and Hornblower television movies, but active in feature films since the 1960s.

Keith Palmer
Born	Keith Palmer
Nationality	British
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1962 to 2005

He won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1999.[1]

Palmer began his career in 1962 as dubbing editor on Station Six-Sahara. Through the 1960s into the early 1970s he worked as a sound mixer or editor, on films including 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1967), Shalako (1968), The Strange Affair (1968), Hello-Goodbye (1970) and Wake in Fright (1971). In 1966 he was assistant editor on I Was Happy Here.[2]

Palmer's first work as a full film editor came in 1969, on the first eight episodes of Strange Report, a new television drama series starring Anthony Quayle. His early films as an editor were I Start Counting (1970) and Nothing But the Night (1972), and he was also editor for the BBC television series Doomwatch (1972).[3] Thereafter, Palmer almost invariably worked as editor, several times on films made by Peter Sasdy and Jack Gold. In 1987 an unusual challenge came with Escape from Sobibor.[4]

In 1999 Palmer received the Primetime Emmy Award (Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie) for Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998),[1] and for the same movie he was also nominated for a BAFTA Television Award (Best Editing, Fiction/Entertainment).[5]

Having edited The Secret Garden (1987), fourteen years later Palmer was called on to work on the sequel Back to the Secret Garden (2001).[6]

Films

Station Six-Sahara (1962), dubbing editor I Was Happy Here (1966), assistant film editor 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1967), sound mixer Shalako (1968), sound editor The Strange Affair (1968), dubbing editor Hello-Goodbye (1970), sound editor Wake in Fright (1971), sound editor I Start Counting (1970), film editor Nothing But the Night (1972), film editor[7] And No One Could Save Her (1973), film editor Blue Blood (1973), film editor[8] S*P*Y*S (1974), film editor I Don't Want to Be Born (1975), film editor Emily (1976), film editor Welcome to Blood City (1977), film editor The Uncanny (1977), film editor Charlie Muffin (1979), film editor Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980), film editor Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), film editor The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982), film editor Praying Mantis (1983), film editor

The Lonely Lady (1983), film editor Sakharov (1984), film editor Wild Geese II (1985), film editor[9] Bad Medicine (1985), film editor Murrow (1986), film editor[10] Escape from Sobibor (1987), film editor[4] The Secret Garden (1987), film editor Stones for Ibarra (1988), film editor Hands of a Murderer (1990), film editor Iran: Days of Crisis (1991), film editor The Winter Stallion, or The Christmas Stallion (1992), film editor Der Fall Lucona (1993), film editor Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (1998), film editor Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998), film editor Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999), film editor Oklahoma! (1999), film editor Back to the Secret Garden (2001), film editor[6] Hornblower: Mutiny (2002), film editor Hornblower: Retribution (2002), film editor Hornblower: Loyalty (2003), film editor Hornblower: Duty (2003), film editor

Television

Strange Report (1969), film editor Shirley's World (1971), film editor Doomwatch (1972), film editor Quatermass (1979), film editor Hart to Hart, two episodes (1983, 1984), film editor Jack the Ripper, two episodes (1988), film editor Covington Cross, one episode (1992) Spender, Christmas Special - The French Collection (1993), film editor Scarlett, miniseries (1994), film editor Sharpe's Mission (1996), film editor

Sharpe's Siege (1996), film editor Sharpe's Regiment (1996), film editor Sharpe's Waterloo (1997), film editor Sharpe's Justice (1997), film editor Sharpe's Revenge (1997), film editor Kavanagh QC, two episodes (1997), film editor Wire in the Blood, The Mermaids Singing (2002), film editor Wire in the Blood: Right to Silence and Still She Cries (2003), film editor Rose and Maloney, two episodes (2004), film editor Wire in the Blood: Nothing But the Night (2005), film editor

Notes

1. James Chapman, Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series (Oxford University Press, 2015) p. 194
2. I Was Happy Here (1966) at bfi.org.uk, accessed 29 November 2017
3. Gary A. Smith, Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956–1976 (2006), p. 86
4. Toby Haggith, Joanna Newman, Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television (2005), p. 289
5. Explore the Awards page at bafta.org, accessed 29 November 2017
6. Back to the Secret Garden, review dated August 29, 2001, in Variety online, accessed 30 November 2017
7. Tom Johnson, Mark A. Miller, The Christopher Lee Filmography: All Theatrical Releases, 1948–2003 (2009), p. 246
8. Harris M. Lentz, Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits (2001), p. 915
9. Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter, Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career (2010), p. 87
10. Jerry Roberts, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors (2009), p. 201

External links

• Keith Palmer at bfi.org.uk
• Keith Palmer on IMDb