Bill Butler

Bill Butler

Editor. Born 1 January 1933 in London, England, UK. Died 4 June 2017.

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1 January 1933, London, England, UK
Died
4 June 2017

Biography

Bill Butler was an English film editor. Born in London in 1933, he began his career in sound editing before moving into picture editing.

He edited Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing. He collaborated repeatedly with director Melvin Frank on films including Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968), A Touch of Class (1973), The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976) and Lost and Found (1979). Other credits include Up the Creek (1984), Pray for Death (1985), Cutting Class (1989) and Of Love and Shadows (1994).

Butler died on 4 June 2017 in Sherman Oaks, California.

Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, Bill Butler is known for Cutting Class (1989), Of Love and Shadows (1994), Up the Creek (1984), A Touch of Class (1973), A Far Off Place (1993), Pray for Death (1985) and The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976).