16 Facts About Barbara McLean

Barbara "Bobby" McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits.

Barbara McLean won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film Wilson.

Barbara McLean was nominated for the same award another six occasions, including All About Eve.

Barbara McLean had an extensive collaboration with the director Henry King over 29 films, including Twelve O'Clock High.

Barbara McLean found work as an assistant editor at First National Studio.

Barbara McLean subsequently joined Twentieth Century Pictures, where initially, she assisted the editor Alan McNeil.

Darryl F Zanuck was the head of the merged studio, and McLean became the chief editor under his sponsorship.

The films Barbara McLean edited at 20th Century Fox included The Rains Came, the only time she worked with director Clarence Brown, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for editing.

Barbara McLean was credited with working on John Ford's Tobacco Road, and George Cukor's, Winged Victory.

Barbara McLean's nomination was among the 14 nominations for the film.

Barbara McLean began her long association with the director Henry King on the films The Country Doctor and Lloyd's of London ; she received her second nomination for an Academy Award for the latter film.

Barbara McLean received three further nominations for editing films directed by King: for Alexander's Ragtime Band, The Song of Bernadette, and Wilson.

Barbara McLean edited the first released movie produced in CinemaScope, Henry Koster's The Robe.

Barbara McLean was co-producer of Seven Cities of Gold.

Barbara McLean retired from 20th Century Fox in 1969, apparently because of her husband's poor health.

Barbara McLean received the inaugural American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 1988.