---
name: "Peter Tanner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-tanner"
fi1m_id: "peter-tanner"
imdb_id: "nm0849686"
tmdb_id: 66105
wikidata_id: "Q28608848"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "13 September 1914"
died: "10 December 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T20:39:41.051126+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."
---

# Peter Tanner

## Identity

Peter Tanner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-tanner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-tanner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0849686
- **TMDB ID:** 66105
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28608848
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tanner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28608848, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849686/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66105

Editor. Born 13 September 1914 in Tilford, Surrey, England, UK. Died 10 December 2002.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 13 September 1914, Tilford, Surrey, England, UK
- **Died:** 10 December 2002
- **Active:** 1949–1988
- **Also known as:** P. Tanner, Peter R.E. Tanner
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 91 (1), 1980s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tanner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28608848, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849686/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66105

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Kind Hearts and Coronets*](https://film.one/film/kind-hearts-and-coronets.md) (91)

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

## Biography

Peter Tanner was a British film editor whose career spanned more than sixty years. He began in the 1930s as a tea boy at Twentieth Century-Fox's Wembley Studios, moved into the cutting rooms and received training in Hollywood. During the Second World War he edited documentaries for the Ministry of Information and worked on footage of liberated concentration camps.

Tanner joined Ealing Studios after the war, editing Scott of the Antarctic (1948), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Blue Lamp (1950) and The Cruel Sea (1953). He remained at Ealing for a decade before freelancing on features and television, including episodes of The Avengers. Later credits include A Christmas Carol (1984), Hamburger Hill (1987), Without a Clue (1988) and Robin Hood (1991). His final film was Something to Believe In (1998). He was born in Tilford, Surrey, and died in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Without a Clue* (1988), Fi1m 64, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/without-a-clue.md)
- *Kind Hearts and Coronets* (1949), Fi1m 91, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/kind-hearts-and-coronets.md)

## Complete filmography (67)

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

- *German Concentration Camps Factual Survey* (2017), Editor
- *Something to Believe In* (1998), Editor
- *A Month by the Lake* (1995), Editor
- *Widows' Peak* (1994), Editor
- *Robin Hood* (1991), Editor
- *Eminent Domain* (1991), Editor
- *Without a Clue* (1988), Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/without-a-clue.md)
- *Taffin* (1988), Editor
- *Hamburger Hill* (1987), Editor
- *Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios* (1986), as Interviewee
- *Turtle Diary* (1985), Editor
- *Memory of the Camps* (1985), Editor
- *Arthur the King* (1985), Editor
- *A Christmas Carol* (1984), Editor
- *To Catch a King* (1984), Editor
- *The Scarlet Pimpernel* (1982), Editor
- *Friend or Foe* (1982), Editor
- *The Monster Club* (1981), Editor
- *The Hard Way* (1980), Editor
- *Stevie* (1978), Editor
- *The Thief of Baghdad* (1978), Editor
- *Wombling Free* (1977), Editor
- *Spectre* (1977), Editor
- *Nasty Habits* (1977), Editor
- *Hedda* (1975), Editor
- *The Maids* (1975), Editor
- *The Beast Must Die* (1974), Editor
- *And Now the Screaming Starts!* (1973), Editor
- *Asylum* (1972), Editor
- *Madame Sin* (1972), Editor
- *I, Monster* (1971), Editor
- *The House That Dripped Blood* (1971), Editor
- *The Best House in London* (1969), Editor
- *Diamonds for Breakfast* (1968), Editor
- *The Crooked Road* (1965), Editor
- *A Jolly Bad Fellow* (1964), Editor
- *Sodom and Gomorrah* (1962), Editor
- *Greyfriars Bobby* (1961), Editor
- *Hand in Hand* (1961), Editor
- *Light Up the Sky!* (1960), Editor
- *The Angry Hills* (1959), Editor
- *A Question of Adultery* (1958), Editor
- *Davy* (1958), Editor
- *The Man in the Sky* (1957), Editor
- *Who Done It?* (1956), Editor
- *Touch and Go* (1955), Editor
- *The Night My Number Came Up* (1955), Editor
- *The 'Maggie'* (1954), Editor
- *The Cruel Sea* (1953), Editor
- *The Gentle Gunman* (1952), Editor
- *I Believe in You* (1952), Editor
- *Secret People* (1952), Editor
- *Pool of London* (1951), Editor
- *Cage of Gold* (1950), Editor
- *The Blue Lamp* (1950), Editor
- *Kind Hearts and Coronets* (1949), Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/kind-hearts-and-coronets.md)
- *Scott of the Antarctic* (1948), Editor
- *Five Towns* (1947), Editor
- *Steel* (1945), Editor
- *Out of Chaos* (1944), Editor
- *Jig-Saw: Careless Talk Costs Lives* (1943), Editor
- *Power on the Land: The Story of the Mechanisation of British Farming* (1943), Editor
- *Sabotage at Sea* (1942), Editor
- *The Lady from Lisbon* (1942), Editor
- *We Serve* (1942), Editor
- *Murder in the Family* (1938), Editor
- *Strange Experiment* (1937), Editor

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