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Michael C Chorlton

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Name
  
Michael Chorlton

Role
  
Film Editor

Movies
  
Broken Journey


Died
  
October 25, 1951, Shottesbrooke, United Kingdom

Similar People
  
Ken Annakin, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, George Pearson, Harold French

Michael C. Chorlton (27 December 1913 – 25 October 1951) was an English film editor and, occasionally, director. He was born in Disley, Cheshire. He particularly worked with Powell and Pressburger, including editing The Silver Fleet and the motorcycle sequences for A Matter of Life and Death

Other films he edited include Juggernaut, Love on the Dole, The Volunteer, the Charters and Caldicott vehicle Crook's Tour and The Day Will Dawn.

Chorlton died in a plane crash near Shottesbrooke, Berkshire in his own plane on 25 October 1951. He was on a flight from the West London Aero Club, White Waltham with a local man.

Selected filmography

  • Music Hall (1934)
  • Say It With Flowers (1934)
  • The Man Who Changed His Name (1934)
  • The Ace of Spades (1935)
  • Inside the Room (1935)
  • The Rocks of Valpre (1935)
  • Street Song (1935)
  • In the Soup (1936)
  • Eliza Comes to Stay (1936)
  • Beauty and the Barge (1937)
  • Love on the Dole (1941)
  • He Found a Star (1941)
  • References

    Michael C. Chorlton Wikipedia