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name: "Brian Smedley-Aston"
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roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1935"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T10:56:53.870232+00:00"
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# Brian Smedley-Aston

Editor. Born 1 January 1935 in Middlesex.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1935, Middlesex

## Biography

Brian Smedley-Aston is a British film editor, assistant director and producer. He began his career as an assistant editor in the early 1960s and worked as an editor on films including *The Loved One* (1965) and *Performance* (1970).

His editing credits also include *Girl Stroke Boy* (1971), *Symptoms* (1974), *Squirm* (1976), *Blue Sunshine* (1977) and the television miniseries *Holocaust* (1978). He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Editing for *Holocaust*. He is the son of film producer Michael Smedley-Aston.

*Sources: imdb.com, cinedweller.com, en-m-wikipedia-org.zproxy.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Performance.* (1970), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/performance.md)

## Also known for

- *Squirm* (1976), Editor
- *Holocaust* (1978), Editor
- *Symptoms* (1974), Editor
- *Blue Sunshine* (1977), Editor
- *The Loved One* (1965), Editor
- *Diary of a Hitman* (1991), Editor

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