---
name: "James Needs"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-needs"
fi1m_id: "james-needs"
imdb_id: "nm0624145"
tmdb_id: 30172
wikidata_id: "Q16015935"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "17 October 1919"
died: "1 January 2003"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:50:22.273200+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."
---

# James Needs

## Identity

James Needs

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/james-needs
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** james-needs
- **IMDb ID:** nm0624145
- **TMDB ID:** 30172
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16015935
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Needs, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16015935, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624145/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30172

Editor. Born 17 October 1919 in Holborn, London, England, UK. Died 1 January 2003.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 17 October 1919, Holborn, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 1 January 2003
- **Also known as:**  Jim Needs, James George Needs
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Needs, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16015935, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624145/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30172

## Biography

James Needs (17 October 1919 – 2003) was a British film editor. He began his career in 1935 as an assistant editor at Islington Studios in London, later working at Shepherd's Bush Studios where he became an editor by 1948. He joined Hammer Film Productions the following year and remained associated with the studio for much of his career.

From 1958 to 1969 he served as supervising editor at Hammer, overseeing post-production on numerous productions. He is credited as editor or supervising editor on films including *The Curse of Frankenstein* (1957), *Dracula* (1958), *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1959), *The Quatermass Xperiment* (1955), *Quatermass and the Pit* (1967), *The Vampire Lovers* (1970) and *Dracula A.D. 1972* (1972).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dracula* (1958), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/dracula-1958.md)

## Complete filmography (73)

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

- *Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell* (1974), Editor
- *Professor Popper's Problems* (1974), Editor
- *Love Thy Neighbour* (1973), Editor
- *Holiday on the Buses* (1973), Editor
- *Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter* (1973), Editor
- *Dracula A.D. 1972* (1972), Editor
- *Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde* (1971), Editor
- *Journey to Murder* (1971), Editor
- *Scars of Dracula* (1970), Editor
- *The Vampire Lovers* (1970), Editor
- *Journey to the Unknown* (1969), Editor
- *Dracula Has Risen from the Grave* (1968), Supervising Editor
- *The Devil Rides Out* (1968), Supervising Editor
- *The Lost Continent* (1968), Supervising Editor
- *The Vengeance of She* (1968), Supervising Editor
- *The Anniversary* (1968), Supervising Editor
- *Quatermass and the Pit* (1967), Supervising Film Editor
- *The Mummy's Shroud* (1967), Supervising Editor
- *The Witches* (1966), Supervising Editor
- *Rasputin: The Mad Monk* (1966), Supervising Editor
- *The Nanny* (1965), Supervising Editor
- *The Brigand of Kandahar* (1965), Supervising Editor
- *She* (1965), Supervising Editor
- *Fanatic* (1965), Supervising Editor
- *The Gorgon* (1964), Supervising Film Editor
- *The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb* (1964), Supervising Editor
- *The Devil-Ship Pirates* (1964), Editor
- *The Evil of Frankenstein* (1964), Supervising Editor
- *The Old Dark House* (1963), Supervising Film Editor
- *The Scarlet Blade* (1963), Supervising Editor
- *Captain Clegg* (1962), Supervising Editor
- *Watch It, Sailor!* (1961), Supervising Editor, Editor
- *The Shadow of the Cat* (1961), Supervising Editor
- *Taste of Fear* (1961), Supervising Editor
- *A Weekend with Lulu* (1961), Supervising Editor
- *The Terror of the Tongs* (1961), Supervising Editor
- *Visa to Canton* (1960), Editor
- *Hell Is a City* (1960), Editor
- *Never Take Sweets from a Stranger* (1960), Supervising Editor
- *Yesterday's Enemy* (1959), Supervising Editor
- *The Man Who Could Cheat Death* (1959), Supervising Editor
- *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1959), Supervising Film Editor
- *Ten Seconds to Hell* (1959), Supervising Editor
- *I Only Arsked* (1958), Supervising Editor
- *The Snorkel* (1958), Editor
- *Dracula* (1958), Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/dracula-1958.md)
- *Quatermass 2* (1957), Editor
- *The Curse of Frankenstein* (1957), Editor
- *X: The Unknown* (1956), Editor
- *Women Without Men* (1956), Editor
- *The Quatermass Xperiment* (1955), Editor
- *The Glass Cage* (1955), Editor
- *The Men of Sherwood Forest* (1954), Editor
- *Third Party Risk* (1954), Editor
- *Paid to Kill* (1954), Editor
- *The House Across the Lake* (1954), Editor
- *36 Hours* (1953), Editor
- *The Saint's Return* (1953), Editor
- *The Flanagan Boy* (1953), Editor
- *Mantrap* (1953), Editor
- *Lady in the Fog* (1952), Editor
- *Wings of Danger* (1952), Editor
- *Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard* (1952), Editor
- *Girdle of Gold* (1952), Editor
- *Black Widow* (1951), Editor
- *A Case For P.C. 49* (1951), Editor
- *To Have and to Hold* (1951), Editor
- *What the Butler Saw* (1950), Editor
- *Room to Let* (1950), Editor
- *Boys in Brown* (1949), Editor
- *A Boy, a Girl and a Bike* (1949), Editor
- *The Bad Lord Byron* (1949), Editor
- *Snowbound* (1948), Editor

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