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Fergus McDonell

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Name
  
Fergus McDonell


Role
  
Film Editor

Died
  
January 3, 1984, Norwich, United Kingdom

Movies
  
The Small Voice, Prelude to Fame

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Film Editing, BAFTA Award for Best British Film

Similar People
  
James Donald, Nicolas Roeg, Basil Dearden, Valerie Hobson, Robert Krasker

Fergus McDonell (6 October 1910, Ticehurst, Sussex – 3 January 1984, Norwich, Norfolk) was an English film editor and director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Odd Man Out (1947).

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Critical assessments

Discussing Private Information, one of McDonell's three films as a director, Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane praise his "sensitive regard for human relationships and for the ways in which the pressure of circumstance highlights aspects of character", and they note that he "had a knack for obtaining striking performances from his leading ladies".

Director

  • The Small Voice (1949)
  • Prelude to Fame (1950)
  • Private Information (1952)

    • Editor

  • I Met a Murderer (1939)
  • The Dummy Talks (1943)
  • Odd Man Out (1947)
  • Nothing But the Best (1964)
  • Khartoum (1966)
  • Charlie Bubbles (1967)
  • Only When I Larf (1968)
  • Spring and Port Wine (1970)
  • Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
  • Mistress Pamela (1974)

    • References

    Fergus McDonell Wikipedia
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