death_place death_date birth_place birth_date yearsactive imdb_id article_title name occupation
london united kingdom 1994 ipswich , suffolk united kingdom 1916 1938-1971 0355051 gordon hales
 gordon hales film editor film director
gordon hales

gordon hales -lrb- 1916 -- 1994 -rrb- was a british film editor who worked on than thirty films , including several documentaries .
early in his career hales was employed by the gpo film unit , which was then taken over by the ministry of information during the second world war .
during the late 1940s he worked at gainsborough pictures .
in 1963 he directed the film noir `` return to sender '' .
