John Dunning (film editor)

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John D. Dunning (May 5, 1916 - February 25, 1991) was an American film editor who worked on several large-scale Hollywood movies from 1947 to 1970.

He first garnered attention when the low-budget war film Battleground became a sleeper hit in 1949, earning critical praise and several Oscar nominations, including one for Best Film Editing.

Dunning worked on the remake of Show Boat (1951); Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play (1953); and the Southern epic Raintree County (1957). In 1959 he won an Oscar for Best Film Editing, shared with Ralph E. Winters, for Ben-Hur.

Dunning then moved to television, where he edited The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

He retired in 1970.