Tom Priestley

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Tom Priestley is a film and sound editor whose career spans 1961 to 1990. His credits include:

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Tom Priestley is the only son of the famous author Media:J.B. Priestley He has worked on many prize winning films and with many leading directors and producers. These include Karel Reisz, Lindsey Anderson, John Boorman, Roman Polanski, Jack Clayton and Blake Edwards. He won a BAFTA in 1967 for his work on Morgan an Unsuitable Case for Treatment and was Oscar nominated in 1972 for Deliverance. After leaving Cambridge University with a degree in English he found employment at Shepperton Studios and worked in various roles including assistant sound editor. His break came when he worked as assistant editor on the now classic films Whistle Down The Wind and This Sporting Life. Bryan Forbes and Linsey Anderson were so impressed by his ability to edit that he soon graduated to supervising editor and then full editor. His first complete edit was the John Krish directed sci-fi movie The Unearthly Stranger (1963). From the late sixties to the late eighties he was always in demand and was regarded as one of the world's leading film editors. When production of Roman Polanski's Tess (1979) became problematic he was brought in to assist Alastair McIntyre and get the film completed.

Since 1990 he has spent his time more in the world lecturing on film editing and handling the estate of his late father (J.B. Priestley). He is currently president of the J.B. Priestley Society and The Priestley Centre for the Arts in Bradford, West Yorkshire.