---
name: "John Trumper"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-trumper"
fi1m_id: "john-trumper"
imdb_id: "nm0517109"
tmdb_id: 32115
wikidata_id: "Q95907512"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "7 March 1923"
died: "13 February 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:29:13.737496+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."
---

# John Trumper

## Identity

John Trumper

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-trumper
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-trumper
- **IMDb ID:** nm0517109
- **TMDB ID:** 32115
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95907512
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95907512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517109/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32115

Editor. Born 7 March 1923 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK. Died 13 February 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 7 March 1923, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
- **Died:** 13 February 2004
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95907512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517109/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32115

## Biography

John Trumper was a British film editor. Born on 7 March 1923 in Plymouth, Devon, he trained at the Crown Film Unit after army service during the Second World War, beginning as a positive cutter before progressing to editor on documentaries and shorts.

He worked extensively on feature films in the 1960s and 1970s, including *The Italian Job* (1969), *Get Carter* (1971), *The Pied Piper* (1972), *And Then There Were None* (1974) and *To the Devil a Daughter* (1976). Trumper regarded *Get Carter* as the best film he edited. His credits also include earlier work such as *The Face of Fu Manchu* (1965). He died on 13 February 2004 in London.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Get Carter* (1971), Fi1m 86, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/get-carter.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

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

- *After Dark* (1979), Editor
- *Danger UXB* (1979), series, Editor
- *To the Devil a Daughter* (1976), Editor
- *Alfie Darling* (1975), Editor
- *And Then There Were None* (1974), Editor
- *Mousey* (1974), Editor
- *The Mutations* (1974), Editor
- *Penny Gold* (1973), Editor
- *The Pied Piper* (1972), Editor
- *Get Carter* (1971), Editor — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/get-carter.md)
- *Entertaining Mr. Sloane* (1970), Editor
- *The Italian Job* (1969), Editor
- *The Long Day's Dying* (1968), Editor
- *Up the Junction* (1968), Editor
- *The Penthouse* (1967), Editor
- *Privilege* (1967), Editor
- *Circus of Fear* (1966), Editor
- *The Face of Fu Manchu* (1965), Editor
- *Coast of Skeletons* (1965), Editor
- *Twenty-Four Hours to Kill* (1965), Editor
- *Code 7, Victim 5* (1964), Editor
- *Live It Up!* (1963), Editor
- *Tomorrow at Ten* (1963), Editor
- *Calculated Risk* (1963), Editor
- *Strongroom* (1962), Editor
- *The Painted Smile* (1962), Editor
- *Pit of Darkness* (1961), Editor
- *The Man in the Back Seat* (1961), Editor
- *House of Mystery* (1961), Editor
- *Devil's Bait* (1959), Editor
- *Cover Girl Killer* (1959), Editor
- *Danger Within* (1959), Editor
- *The Man Upstairs* (1958), Editor
- *Heart of a Child* (1958), Editor
- *The Flying Scot* (1957), Editor
- *Time Lock* (1957), Editor
- *Every Valley* (1957), Editor
- *The Black Rider* (1954), Editor
- *The Kidnappers* (1953), Editor
- *Background* (1953), Editor
- *The Brave Don't Cry* (1952), Editor
- *Brandy for the Parson* (1952), Editor
- *Journey to the Sea* (1952), Writer, Editor
- *West of England* (1951), Editor
- *Three Dawns to Sydney* (1949), Editor
- *Instruments of the Orchestra* (1946), Editor

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