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name: "Richard Marden"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-marden"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1928"
died: "13 November 2006"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:01:56.650002+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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# Richard Marden

Editor. Born 1 January 1928 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. Died 13 November 2006.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1928, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
- **Died:** 13 November 2006
- **Active:** 1972–1987

## Biography

Richard Marden (1928–2006) was a British film editor. He began his career in the sound department at Carlton Hill Studios in 1946 and later moved into editing, with his first major feature credit on the filmed stage production *Othello* (1965).

Over a career spanning the late 1940s to the 1990s, Marden edited numerous features across genres. His credits include *Two for the Road* (1967), *Sunday Bloody Sunday* (1971), *Sleuth* (1972), *Evil Under the Sun* (1982), *Hellraiser* (1987), *Hellbound: Hellraiser II* (1988), *Nightbreed* (1990), *Hamlet* (1990) and *Jane Eyre* (1996). He frequently collaborated with directors such as Stanley Donen, John Schlesinger and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Marden won a BAFTA Award for Best Film Editing for *Sunday Bloody Sunday*.

*Sources: imdb.com, historyproject.org.uk, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sleuth* (1972), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/sleuth.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Hellraiser* (1987), Editor

## Also known for

- *Hellbound: Hellraiser II* (1988), Editor
- *Nightbreed* (1990), Editor
- *Evil Under the Sun* (1982), Editor
- *Hamlet* (1990), Editor
- *Reds* (1981), Additional Editing
- *Two for the Road* (1967), Editor
- *The Mirror Crack'd* (1980), Editor
- *Jane Eyre* (1996), Editor

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