---
name: "Lesley Walker"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lesley-walker"
fi1m_id: "lesley-walker"
imdb_id: "nm0907970"
tmdb_id: 11072
wikidata_id: "Q515837"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 July 1945"
died: "2 December 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-04T20:14:00.645622+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."
---

# Lesley Walker

## Identity

Lesley Walker

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lesley-walker
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lesley-walker
- **IMDb ID:** nm0907970
- **TMDB ID:** 11072
- **Wikidata ID:** Q515837
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Walker, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515837, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907970/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11072

Editor. Born 1 July 1945 in Surrey. Died 2 December 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 July 1945, Surrey
- **Died:** 2 December 2025
- **Active:** 1968–2008
- **Frequently works with:** [Richard Attenborough](https://film.one/person/richard-attenborough.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 81 (1), 1980s 78 (2), 1990s 80 (2), 2000s 72 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 74 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Romance 3, Comedy 2, Crime 1, History 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $732m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Walker, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515837, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907970/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11072

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Mona Lisa*](https://film.one/film/mona-lisa.md) (83)
- **Apple TV:** [*Mamma Mia!*](https://film.one/film/mamma-mia.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lesley Walker (27 July 1945 – 2 December 2025) was a British film and television editor. She began her career in the 1960s as a runner, negative cutter and receptionist at a film laboratory, later working as an assistant editor to John Bloom and Tom Priestley before receiving her first editing credit on *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* (1977).

Walker edited more than thirty feature films. She developed a distinctive fast editing style in the 1980s on films including *A Letter to Brezhnev* (1985), *Mona Lisa* (1986), *Cry Freedom* (1987) and *Shirley Valentine* (1989). She maintained long collaborations with directors Richard Attenborough, on *Shadowlands* (1993) among others, and Terry Gilliam, on *The Fisher King* (1991), *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* (1998), *Tideland* (2005) and *The Brothers Grimm* (2005). Her work earned BAFTA nominations for best editing on *Mona Lisa* and *Cry Freedom*, as well as further nominations for *Tideland* and *Mamma Mia!* (2008).

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

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Mamma Mia!* (2008), Fi1m 72, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/mamma-mia.md)
- *Shadowlands* (1993), Fi1m 79, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/shadowlands.md)
- *The Fisher King* (1991), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fisher-king.md)
- *Cry Freedom* (1987), Fi1m 72, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/cry-freedom.md)
- *Mona Lisa* (1986), Fi1m 83, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/mona-lisa.md)
- *The Lion in Winter* (1968), Fi1m 81, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-in-winter.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *Military Wives* (2020), Editor
- *The Man Who Killed Don Quixote* (2018), Editor
- *The Dresser* (2015), Editor
- *Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism* (2015), Editor
- *Will* (2011), Editor
- *Mamma Mia!* (2008), Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/mamma-mia.md)
- *Closing the Ring* (2007), Editor
- *Tideland* (2005), Editor
- *The Brothers Grimm* (2005), Editor
- *The Sleeping Dictionary* (2003), Editor
- *Nicholas Nickleby* (2002), Editor
- *All or Nothing* (2002), Editor
- *The Body* (2001), Editor
- *Grey Owl* (1999), Editor
- *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* (1998), Editor
- *In Love and War* (1996), Editor
- *Emma* (1996), Editor
- *Mary Reilly* (1996), Editor
- *Jack & Sarah* (1995), Editor
- *Shadowlands* (1993), Editor — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/shadowlands.md)
- *Born Yesterday* (1993), Editor
- *Waterland* (1992), Editor
- *The Fisher King* (1991), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fisher-king.md)
- *The Secret Life of Ian Fleming* (1990), Editor
- *Shirley Valentine* (1989), Editor
- *Buster* (1988), Editor
- *Cry Freedom* (1987), Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/cry-freedom.md)
- *Mona Lisa* (1986), Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mona-lisa.md)
- *Letter to Brezhnev* (1985), Editor
- *Winter Flight* (1984), Editor
- *Meantime* (1983), Editor
- *Richard's Things* (1980), Editor
- *The Tempest* (1979), Editor
- *Eagle's Wing* (1979), Editor
- *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* (1977), Editor
- *The Abdication* (1974), Assistant Editor
- *The Last Valley* (1971), Assistant Editor
- *The Lion in Winter* (1968), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-in-winter.md)
- *Funeral in Berlin* (1966), Assistant Editor

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