---
name: "Peter Taylor"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-taylor"
fi1m_id: "peter-taylor"
imdb_id: "nm0852999"
tmdb_id: 93959
wikidata_id: "Q2078611"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "28 February 1922"
died: "17 December 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 90
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T23:29:31.734272+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."
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# Peter Taylor

## Identity

Peter Taylor

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-taylor
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-taylor
- **IMDb ID:** nm0852999
- **TMDB ID:** 93959
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2078611
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Taylor_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2078611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93959

Editor. Born 28 February 1922 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK. Died 17 December 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 28 February 1922, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 17 December 1997
- **Active:** 1949–1957
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 92 (1), 1950s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Taylor_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2078611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93959

## Biography

Peter Taylor was an English film editor. Born in Portsmouth in 1922, he began working in the industry in the 1940s and accumulated more than 30 editing credits over five decades.

He is best known for editing David Lean's *The Bridge on the River Kwai* (1957), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. His other notable credits include *Hobson's Choice* (1954), *Summertime* (1955), *This Sporting Life* (1963) and *The Taming of the Shrew* (1967). He also worked as assistant editor on *The Third Man* (1949).

Taylor moved to Rome around 1966 and later collaborated with Franco Zeffirelli on *La Traviata* (1983) and *Otello* (1986). He died in Rome in 1997.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Bridge on the River Kwai* (1957), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai.md)
- *The Third Man* (1949), Fi1m 92, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *Inside The Living Daylights* (2000), Assistant Editor
- *Becoming Colette* (1991), Editor
- *The Darling Buds of May* (1991), series, Editor
- *Otello* (1986), Editor
- *La traviata* (1982), Editor
- *Inchon* (1981), Editor
- *The Ninth Configuration* (1980), Supervising Editor
- *Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora* (1980), Editor
- *Thundercloud* (1979), series, Editor
- *Casting the Runes* (1979), Editor
- *A Matter of Time* (1976), Editor
- *The Tempter* (1974), Editor
- *Right to Work March* (1972), Actor
- *The Main Chance* (1969), series, Editor
- *Anzio* (1968), Editor
- *The Taming of the Shrew* (1967), Editor
- *The Sandwich Man* (1966), Editor
- *Judith* (1966), Editor
- *One Way Pendulum* (1965), Editor
- *This Sporting Life* (1963), Editor
- *Two and Two Make Six* (1962), Editor
- *Waltz of the Toreadors* (1962), Editor
- *The Devil's Daffodil* (1961), Editor
- *The Mark* (1961), Editor
- *The Big Day* (1960), Editor
- *Snowball* (1960), Editor
- *Honeymoon* (1959), Editor
- *The Bridge on the River Kwai* (1957), Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai.md)
- *The Man Who Never Was* (1956), Editor
- *Portrait of Alison* (1955), Editor
- *Man of the Moment* (1955), as Gritter
- *Summertime* (1955), Editor
- *For Better, for Worse* (1954), Editor
- *Hobson's Choice* (1954), Editor
- *The Steel Key* (1953), Editor
- *Cairo Road* (1950), Editor
- *The Third Man* (1949), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1958: Best Film Editing (won), for *The Bridge on the River Kwai*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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