---
name: "Noreen Ackland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/noreen-ackland"
fi1m_id: "noreen-ackland"
imdb_id: "nm0010060"
tmdb_id: 38059
wikidata_id: "Q62920328"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1921"
died: "15 April 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T12:24:39.378504+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."
---

# Noreen Ackland

## Identity

Noreen Ackland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/noreen-ackland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** noreen-ackland
- **IMDb ID:** nm0010060
- **TMDB ID:** 38059
- **Wikidata ID:** Q62920328
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreen_Ackland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62920328, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010060/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38059

Editor. Born 1 January 1921 in Oakley Green. Died 15 April 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1921, Oakley Green
- **Died:** 15 April 2013
- **Active:** 1960–1967
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreen_Ackland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62920328, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010060/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38059

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Prisoner*](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md) (84)

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## Biography

Noreen Ackland was a British film and television editor. She began her career during the Second World War, working in the cutting rooms of the Army Kinematograph Unit after being placed there by Thorold Dickinson. She subsequently assisted editor Reginald Mills on films by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Ackland's first feature credit as editor was on Powell's *Peeping Tom* (1960). She went on to edit *The Queen's Guards* (1961), *The Password Is Courage* (1962), *Never Put It in Writing* (1964) and other features. In 1967–1968 she edited two episodes of the television series *The Prisoner*.

She was married to film editor Richard Best from 1956 until his death in 2004. Later in her career she took on intermittent work in television, children's films and dubbing to accommodate family commitments. Ackland died on 15 April 2013.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Prisoner* (1967), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *The Prisoner* (1967), series, Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)
- *The Secret of My Success* (1965), Editor
- *Never Put It in Writing* (1964), Editor
- *The Password Is Courage* (1962), Editor
- *The Queen's Guards* (1961), Editor
- *Peeping Tom* (1960), Editor
- *Subway in the Sky* (1959), Sound Editor

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