Jim Clark (film editor)

Jim Clark
Born
James Clark

(1931-05-24)24 May 1931
Died25 February 2016(2016-02-25) (aged 84)
London, England
EducationOundle School
Occupation(s)Editor, director
Notable workThe Killing Fields
The Jackal
The World Is Not Enough
Spouse
Laurence Méry-Clark
(m. 1961)
AwardsAcademy Award for Film Editing (1985)
BAFTA Award for Best Editing (1986)

Jim Clark (24 May 1931 – 25 February 2016) was a British film editor and film director. He has more than forty feature film credits between 1956 and 2008. Clark directed four feature films along with a handful of short films. Notably, he served as a creative consultant for Midnight Cowboy (1969). His most noted editing credits included Marathon Man (1976), The Killing Fields (1984), and Vera Drake (2004). In 2011, Clark published Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing, a memoir of his career.