Biography
Ernest Walter (1919–1999) was a British film editor. Born in Cardiff, Wales, he trained as an accountant before enlisting in the Welch Regiment during the Second World War. He served as a cameraman with the Army Film and Photographic Unit, filming the D-Day landings and subsequent Allied advances across Europe and in south-east Asia.
After the war he joined MGM as an editor and later worked freelance on feature films, including The Haunting (1963), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). A stroke ended his editing career; he subsequently taught at the National Film School and wrote the manual The Technique of the Film Cutting Room (1973).
