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Ralph Kemplen

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Occupation
  
film editor

Children
  
Willy Kemplen

Movies
  
The Spaniard's Curse

Role
  
Film Editor

Name
  
Ralph Kemplen


Born
  
October 8, 1912 (
1912-10-08
)
London, England

Died
  
April 4, 2004, London, United Kingdom

Spouse
  
Kathleen Kemplen (m. ?–2004)

Awards
  
BAFTA Award for Best Editing

Similar People
  
Oswald Morris, Vernon Harris, Ted Moore, John Box, Jack Cardiff

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).

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 parenthesis.

  • 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)
  • 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 (Zinneman-1966)
  • The Bible: In the Beginning... (Huston-1966)
  • Oliver! (Reed-1968)
  • The Day of the Jackal (Zinneman-1973) (for which he won the 1974 BAFTA Award).
  • The Odessa File (Neame-1974)
  • The Great Muppet Caper (Henson-1981)
  • The Dark Crystal (Henson & Oz-1982)

    • References

    Ralph Kemplen Wikipedia
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