---
name: "Jack Harris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-harris"
fi1m_id: "jack-harris"
imdb_id: "nm0364789"
tmdb_id: 12721
wikidata_id: "Q6112953"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "2 July 1905"
died: "1 January 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-25T07:14:42.591154+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."
---

# Jack Harris

## Identity

Jack Harris

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-harris
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jack-harris
- **IMDb ID:** nm0364789
- **TMDB ID:** 12721
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6112953
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Harris_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6112953, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364789/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12721

Editor. Born 2 July 1905 in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, UK. Died 1 January 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 2 July 1905, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 1 January 1971
- **Active:** 1945–1960
- **Frequently works with:** [Anthony Havelock-Allan](https://film.one/person/anthony-havelock-allan.md), [David Lean](https://film.one/person/david-lean.md), [Ronald Neame](https://film.one/person/ronald-neame.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 87 (2), 1950s 86 (1), 1960s 74 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 87 to 86 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $0m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Harris_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6112953, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364789/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12721

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Brief Encounter*](https://film.one/film/brief-encounter.md) (90), [*Great Expectations*](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md) (84)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Sundowners*](https://film.one/film/the-sundowners.md) (74)

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## Biography

Jack Harris (1905–1971) was a British film editor. He began his career in 1921 at the Gaumont Studios in Shepherd's Bush and worked as an assistant director before settling into editing after the advent of sound, initially at Twickenham Studios.

Harris edited several films directed by David Lean in the 1940s, including *This Happy Breed* (1944), *Blithe Spirit* (1945), *Brief Encounter* (1945), *Great Expectations* (1946) and *Oliver Twist* (1948). He later worked as a supervising editor at Pinewood and on productions at Ealing Studios, including *The Ladykillers* (1955), as well as films such as *The Crimson Pirate* (1952), *Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.* (1951) and *The Prince and the Showgirl* (1957). He was regarded by many of his peers as one of the leading British editors of the period from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The Sundowners* (1960), Fi1m 74, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sundowners.md)
- *The Ladykillers* (1955), Fi1m 86, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ladykillers.md)
- *Great Expectations* (1946), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)
- *Brief Encounter* (1945), Fi1m 90, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/brief-encounter.md)

## Complete filmography (68)

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

- *Take a Girl Like You* (1970), Editor
- *Three Sisters* (1970), Editor
- *Love Is a Funny Thing* (1969), Editor
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1968), Editor
- *Bindle (One of Them Days)* (1966), Supervising Editor
- *He Who Rides a Tiger* (1965), Editor
- *The Chalk Garden* (1964), Editor
- *Sammy Going South* (1963), Editor
- *Billy Budd* (1962), Editor
- *Stakeout!* (1962), as Gus
- *The Sundowners* (1960), Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-sundowners.md)
- *Once More, with Feeling!* (1960), Editor
- *The Scapegoat* (1959), Editor
- *Indiscreet* (1958), Editor
- *The Prince and the Showgirl* (1957), Editor
- *The Ladykillers* (1955), Editor — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ladykillers.md)
- *Out of the Clouds* (1955), Editor
- *The Rainbow Jacket* (1954), Editor
- *The Master of Ballantrae* (1953), Editor
- *The Crimson Pirate* (1952), Editor
- *Where No Vultures Fly* (1951), Supervising Editor
- *Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.* (1951), Editor
- *Golden Salamander* (1950), Editor
- *The Passionate Friends* (1949), Editor
- *Oliver Twist* (1948), Editor
- *Blanche Fury* (1948), Editor
- *Take My Life* (1947), Editor
- *Great Expectations* (1946), Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)
- *Brief Encounter* (1945), Editor — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/brief-encounter.md)
- *Blithe Spirit* (1945), Editor
- *This Happy Breed* (1944), Editor
- *The Dummy Talks* (1943), Supervising Editor
- *Theatre Royal* (1943), Supervising Editor
- *Old Mother Riley Detective* (1943), Supervising Editor
- *We’ll Smile Again* (1942), Supervising Editor
- *Salute John Citizen* (1942), Editor
- *Old Mother Riley's Circus* (1941), Supervising Editor
- *The Common Touch* (1941), Supervising Editor
- *Old Mother Riley's Ghosts* (1941), Editor
- *The Dawn Guard* (1941), Editor
- *The Chinese Bungalow* (1940), Editor
- *Crimes at the Dark House* (1940), Editor
- *The Face at the Window* (1939), Editor
- *Let's Make a Night of It* (1937), as And His Band
- *The Man in the Mirror* (1936), Supervising Editor
- *Scrooge* (1935), Supervising Editor
- *The Last Journey* (1935), Supervising Editor
- *D’Ye Ken John Peel?* (1935), Supervising Editor
- *Kentucky Minstrels* (1934), Editor
- *Lily of Killarney* (1934), Editor
- *The Broken Melody* (1934), Editor
- *The Man Who Changed His Name* (1934), Supervising Editor
- *The Wandering Jew* (1933), Editor
- *This Week of Grace* (1933), Editor
- *I Lived with You* (1933), Editor
- *Called Back* (1933), Director
- *The Man Outside* (1933), Editor
- *The Shadow* (1933), Editor
- *The Lodger* (1932), Editor
- *When London Sleeps* (1932), Editor
- *The Missing Rembrandt* (1932), Editor
- *Condemned to Death* (1932), Editor
- *Frail Women* (1932), Editor
- *Splinters in the Navy* (1931), Editor
- *Chin Chin Chinaman* (1931), Editor
- *A Night in Montmartre* (1931), Editor
- *The Sleeping Cardinal* (1931), Editor
- *Lord Richard in the Pantry* (1930), Editor

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