---
name: "Bob Rymer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bob-rymer"
fi1m_id: "bob-rymer"
tmdb_id: 1403627
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 85
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T15:39:01.332303+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bob Rymer

## Identity

Bob Rymer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bob-rymer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bob-rymer
- **TMDB ID:** 1403627
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1403627

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1962–1975
- **Frequently works with:** [Douglas Argent](https://film.one/person/douglas-argent.md), [Geoffrey Botterill](https://film.one/person/geoffrey-botterill.md), [John Howard Davies](https://film.one/person/john-howard-davies.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 82 (2), 1970s 90 (1)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Action & Adventure 1, Drama 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1403627

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Fawlty Towers*](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md) (90)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Bob Rymer is a British television editor. He worked on the first series of *Fawlty Towers* (1975), editing three episodes.

Rymer edited episodes of *Doctor Who* (1963) including *Death to the Daleks* and *Planet of the Spiders*. His other credits include series such as *Dad's Army*, *It Ain't Half Hot Mum*, *Dave Allen at Large*, *The Two Ronnies* and *The Duchess of Duke Street* during the 1960s to 1980s.

*Sources: comedy.co.uk, imdb.com, tardis.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Fawlty Towers* (1975), Fi1m 90, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md)
- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)
- *Steptoe and Son* (1962), Fi1m 83, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/steptoe-and-son.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fawlty Towers* (1975), series, Editor — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/fawlty-towers.md)
- *Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks* (1974), Editor
- *Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs* (1974), Editor
- *It Ain't Half Hot Mum* (1974), series, Editor
- *The Moonstone* (1972), series, Editor
- *Taste of Evil* (1971), Editor
- *Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos* (1971), Editor
- *Bigfoot: America's Abominable Snowman* (1968), Editor
- *Wuthering Heights* (1967), Editor
- *Wuthering Heights* (1967), series, Editor
- *Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve* (1966), Editor
- *The Likely Lads* (1964), series, Editor
- *Doctor Who* (1963), series, Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)
- *Steptoe and Son* (1962), series, Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/steptoe-and-son.md)
- *The Super Secret Service* (1953), Editor

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/bob-rymer