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name: "Lionel Selwyn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lionel-selwyn"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "22 January 1929"
died: "10 April 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T20:16:39.548840+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."
---

# Lionel Selwyn

Editor. Born 22 January 1929 in Fulham, London, England, UK. Died 10 April 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 22 January 1929, Fulham, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 10 April 2013
- **Active:** 1961–2003
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 83 (1), 2000s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28599968, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1187018

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Avengers*](https://film.one/tv/the-avengers-1961.md) (83)

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## Biography

Lionel Selwyn (1929–2013) was a British film and television editor and sound specialist. He began his career as an assistant editor on *The Man in the White Suit* (1951) and later worked as an editor on feature films and television series, including multiple episodes of *The Avengers* (1961).

In the later part of his career, Selwyn focused on sound post-production. He received credits as a sound editor on films such as *Dunkirk* (1958), *Circus of Horrors* (1960) and *Appointment with Death* (1988), and as a foley artist on *Emma* (1996), *Shadow of the Vampire* (2000), *Love Actually* (2003) and *The Dark* (2005).

*Sources: imdb.com, moviemeter.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Love Actually* (2003), Fi1m 58, Foley Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/love-actually.md)
- *The Avengers* (1961), Fi1m 83, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-avengers-1961.md)

## Also known for

- *Shadow of the Vampire* (2000), Foley Artist
- *Emma* (1996), Foley Artist
- *Enigma* (2001), Foley
- *The Dark* (2005), Foley Artist
- *Young Adam* (2003), Foley Artist
- *Appointment with Death* (1988), Sound Editor
- *Circus of Horrors* (1960), Sound Editor
- *Dunkirk* (1958), Sound Editor

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