death_place death_date birth_place awards birth_date article_title name occupation
los angeles , california , u.s. 10 january 1988 brooklyn , new york , u.s. best editing 1969 '' midnight cowboy '' 28 may 1932 hugh a. robertson
 hugh a. robertson film editor
hugh a. robertson

hugh a. robertson -lrb- may 28 , 1932 -- january 10 , 1988 -rrb- was an african-american film director and editor .
while robertson was credited as an editor for only three films , `` midnight cowboy '' -lrb- directed by john schlesinger-1969 -rrb- earned him the bafta award for best editing and a nomination for the academy award for film editing for the same film .
robertson subsequently edited gordon parks ' film `` shaft '' -lrb- 1971 -rrb- , which was his last credit as a film editor .
by this time robertson had turned to directing .
in addition to television programs and documentaries , he directed the feature `` melinda '' -lrb- 1972 -rrb- .
he spent most of his remaining life in trinidad and tobago .
there he produced and directed the film `` bim '' -lrb- 1975 -rrb- and ran a filmmaking school .
he returned to the united states in 1986 .
