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name: "Sam Upton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sam-upton"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T18:11:37.283833+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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# Sam Upton

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1963–1977
- **Works often with:** Alan Goddard, Andrew Morgan, Howard Billingham, M.A.C. Adams, Malcolm Banthorpe, Michael E. Briant

## Biography

Sam Upton is a British videotape editor. He worked on the Doctor Who television stories Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970), The Mind of Evil (1971, with Roger Harvey) and Meglos (1980), as well as the 1977 documentary Whose Doctor Who. He also edited episodes of Survivors (1975) and served as series videotape editor on Blake's 7 (1978–1981).

In 1980 Upton won a BAFTA Television Craft Award for Best VTR Editor, for his work on Crime and Punishment and Suez 1956.

*Sources: tardis.fandom.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Secret Army* (1977), Editor

## Also known for

- *Blake's 7* (1978), Editor

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