---
name: "Don Fairservice"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/don-fairservice"
fi1m_id: "don-fairservice"
imdb_id: "nm0265652"
tmdb_id: 67574
wikidata_id: "Q109796897"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1932"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:41:28.931132+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."
---

# Don Fairservice

## Identity

Don Fairservice

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/don-fairservice
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** don-fairservice
- **IMDb ID:** nm0265652
- **TMDB ID:** 67574
- **Wikidata ID:** Q109796897
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109796897, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265652/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67574

Editor. Born 1 January 1932 in Edmonton.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1932, Edmonton
- **Active:** 1988–1996
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109796897, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265652/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67574

## Biography

Don Fairservice (1932–2024) was a British film editor and director. He began in amateur theatre as an actor and set designer before training as a film editor at the BBC in 1961, where he worked until 1982 and then continued as a freelance editor until 2012.

He edited more than 40 films and television series. His credits include *Beautiful Thing* (1996), *Emma* (1996) and *Chattahoochee* (1989). He won a BAFTA TV Award for Film Editor in 1989 for the Channel 4 series *A Very British Coup* (1988). Fairservice also directed films and documentaries, and published the book *Film Editing: History, Theory and Practice* in 2001.

*Sources: theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Beautiful Thing* (1996), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/beautiful-thing.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *Circus Drawings* (2010), Editor
- *Sparkling Cyanide* (2003), Editor
- *Me & Mrs. Jones* (2003), Editor
- *The Railway Children* (2000), Editor
- *Deja Vu* (1999), Editor
- *Shockers* (1999), series, Editor
- *The Echo* (1998), series, Editor
- *Emma* (1996), Editor
- *Beautiful Thing* (1996), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/beautiful-thing.md)
- *A Woman's Guide to Adultery* (1993), series, Editor
- *Comics* (1993), series, Editor
- *Anglo Saxon Attitudes* (1992), series, Editor
- *Ex* (1991), Editor
- *Murder East - Murder West* (1990), Editor
- *Chattahoochee* (1990), Editor
- *A Very British Coup* (1988), series, Editor
- *The Real Buddy Holly Story* (1985), Editor
- *Across the Water* (1983), Editor
- *Break in the Sun* (1981), series, Editor
- *Touch and Go* (1978), Editor
- *Law & Order* (1978), series, Editor
- *Your Man from Six Counties* (1976), Editor
- *Beowulf* (1976), Director
- *Leeds United!* (1974), Editor
- *The Block* (1972), Editor
- *Culloden* (1964), as English Officer (uncredited)

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