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name: "Helga Cranston"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/helga-cranston"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "6 May 1921"
died: "1 March 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:50:48.810083+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."
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# Helga Cranston

Editor. Born 6 May 1921 in Darmstadt. Died 1 March 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 6 May 1921, Darmstadt
- **Died:** 1 March 2013
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga_Cranston, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6794058, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186508/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20137

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Hamlet*](https://film.one/film/hamlet-1948.md) (84)

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## Biography

Helga Cranston, also known as Helga Keller, was a film editor born Helga May on 6 May 1921 in Darmstadt, Germany. She emigrated to England in 1939 as a Jewish refugee and began working as an editor in the mid-1940s. She was mentored by Reginald Beck.

Cranston edited Laurence Olivier’s *Hamlet* (1948) and *Richard III* (1955). She also worked with Otto Preminger on *Saint Joan* (1957) and *Bonjour Tristesse* (1958), and edited several other British films including *Madness of the Heart* (1949), *The Final Test* (1953) and *Model for Murder* (1959).

In 1958 she moved to Israel, where she continued editing films, directed short documentaries and later taught in the film and education departments at Tel Aviv University. She died on 1 March 2013 in Tel Aviv.

*Sources: bfi.org.uk, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hamlet* (1948), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/hamlet-1948.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Sands of Beersheba* (1964), Editor
- *Joseph the Dreamer* (1962), Editor
- *They Were Ten* (1960), Editor
- *Model for Murder* (1959), Editor
- *Bonjour Tristesse* (1958), Editor
- *Saint Joan* (1957), Editor
- *Richard III* (1955), Editor
- *The Diamond Wizard* (1954), Editor
- *The Final Test* (1953), Editor
- *Madness of the Heart* (1949), Editor
- *Hamlet* (1948), Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/hamlet-1948.md)
- *It's Hard to be Good* (1948), Editor
- *Daybreak* (1948), Editor
- *I Live in Grosvenor Square* (1945), Sound Editor

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