John Jympson edited films such as Zulu, A Hard Day's Night, Kaleidoscope, Frenzy and A Fish Called Wanda.
17 Facts About John Jympson
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John Jympson attended Dulwich College and left aged 17 in 1947 intending to become a veterinary surgeon.
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John Jympson worked in the cutting-room, aiding Peter Tanner on the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, before participating in two years of National Service.
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John Jympson returned to Ealing and worked on the films The Cruel Sea and The Ladykillers.
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John Jympson's break came in 1959 while working under William Hornbeck on Suddenly, Last Summer where his work earned him the credit of assembly editor.
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The film's success and a recommendation from Max Benedict meant John Jympson was hired to edit films himself for the first time, namely A French Mistress and Suspect in 1960, each for the Boulting brothers.
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John Jympson met actor and producer Stanley Baker when editing the 1962 film A Prize of Arms; the two worked together on The Man Who Finally Died and 1964's Zulu, which Tony Sloman called John Jympson's "career-high" saying the film was "magnificently edited".
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John Jympson followed this up with a further success, A Hard Day's Night, a film starring the Beatles, was released to critical acclaim.
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James B Harris picked Jympson to edit his directorial debut The Bedford Incident in 1965, the year he edited Sands of the Kalahari.
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John Jympson edited Where Eagles Dare and aided the film's director Brian G Hutton on set.
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John Jympson edited Kelly's Heroes, and the Peter Sellers' films The Bobo and The Optimists of Nine Elms.
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Alfred Hitchcock selected John Jympson to edit Frenzy in 1972; off set the two became good friends.
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In 1976 John Jympson was hired to edit Star Wars by director George Lucas, as Lucas liked John Jympson's work on A Hard Day's Night.
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However after an initial cut, John Jympson was replaced by Paul Hirsch, Richard Chew and Marcia Lucas, with Lucas himself editing chunks of the film to get it back in a state that he wanted the film to be cut in.
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Little Shop of Horrors, A Fish Called Wanda, Housesitter, Splitting Heirs, Circle of Friends, Haunted and In and Out were some of John Jympson's later editing projects.
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John Jympson married Maureen Hemsworth, a costume department worker at Ealing, in 1954.
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John Jympson suffered a stroke before editing his final film, Mad Cows, and later had both of his legs amputated due to diabetes.