death_date death_place birth_place baftaawards name birth_date imdb_id article_title birth_name occupation
5 february 2013 -lrb- aged 86 -rrb- cambridge croydon , surrey , england best editing 1991 '' the commitments '' gerry hambling 14 june 1926 0357421 gerry hambling
 gerald hambling film editor
gerry hambling

gerry hambling -lrb- 14 june 1926 -- 5 february 2013 -rrb- was a british film editor whose work is credited on 49 films ; he had also worked as a sound editor and a television editor .
hambling 's editing of three films , `` the commitments '' -lrb- 1991 -rrb- , `` mississippi burning '' -lrb- 1988 -rrb- , and `` midnight express '' -lrb- 1978 -rrb- , has been honored by bafta awards for best editing .
in 1976 , hambling began a notable collaboration with the director alan parker that extended over nearly all of parker 's films .
the three bafta awards noted above were all for films directed by parker .
chris routledge has described their collaboration as follows : in addition to the three bafta awards , hambling had been nominated for the bafta award for three additional films -lrb- `` fame '' , `` another country '' , and `` evita '' -rrb- .
six films edited by hambling were nominated for the academy award for film editing -lrb- `` midnight express '' , `` fame '' , `` mississippi burning '' , `` the commitments '' , `` in the name of the father '' , and `` evita '' -rrb- .
hambling had been elected to membership in the american cinema editors .
`` mississippi burning '' won the ace eddie award , and in 1998 hambling was honored by the american cinema editors career achievement award .
he died in 2013 at the age of 86 .
