{{Short description|British film editor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = <!-- defaults to article title when left blank --> | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|05|07|df=y}} | birth_place = Crows Nest, New South Wales | death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|||1914|05|07|df=y}} | death_place = Twickenham, Middlesex, UK | other_names = | occupation = Film editor | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''The Guns of Navarone'' | spouse = {{married|Lyla Cranston|1942}} | relatives = Max Osbiston (cousin) | awards = Academy Award for Best Film Editing (1962) }} '''Alan Brigstocke Osbiston''' (7 May 1914<ref name=Bae/> – 1971) was a British film editor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1962 for ''The Guns of Navarone''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Born: 7 May 1914, Array |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9f59c26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624201148/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9f59c26 |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 June 2016 |title=Alan Osbiston |publisher=BFI |date=2015-07-02 |accessdate=2016-04-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Hollywood.com Staff |url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/alan-osbiston-58990122/ |title=Alan Osbiston &#124; Biography and Filmography &#124; 1914 |publisher=Hollywood.com |date=2015-02-03 |accessdate=2016-04-23}}</ref>

==History== Osbiston was born in Crows Nest, New South Wales, to Charles Alan and Emily Florence "Bae" Osbiston, née Brigstocke of Brockley Farm, Mount Druitt, New South Wales.<ref name=Bae>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15511857 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=30 May 1914 |access-date=15 January 2020 |page=20 |via=Trove }}</ref>

Osbiston attended "Shore School"<ref>{{cite news |title=The Torchbearer |date=May 1928 |page=71 |url=https://www.shore.nsw.edu.au/ArticleDocuments/278/The_Torchbearer_1928_05.pdf.aspx |access-date=8 April 2020 |archive-date=8 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408221114/https://www.shore.nsw.edu.au/ArticleDocuments/278/The_Torchbearer_1928_05.pdf.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> and for much of his early life lived in Chatswood, Sydney.

Prior to joining the British Ministry of Information, Osbiston worked for Cinesound in Sydney.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26075904 |title=Australia To Have Film Unit |newspaper=The Mercury (Hobart) |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=28 April 1945 |access-date=15 January 2020 |page=9 |via=Trove }}</ref>

== Personal == Osbiston married Lyla Cranston of London, on 15 August 1942 in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17797657 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=7 November 1942 |access-date=15 January 2020 |page=16 |via=Trove }}</ref>

He was a cousin of Australian actor Max Osbiston (7 August 1914 – 12 March 1981).

==Selected filmography (as editor)== * ''The Laughing Lady'' (1946) * ''Against the Wind'' (1948) * ''Twist of Fate (1954 film)'' (1954) (U.S. ' Beautiful Stranger ') * ''Footsteps in the Fog'' (1955) * ''The End of the Affair'' (1955) * ''Manuela'' (1957) * ''Time Without Pity'' (1957) * ''A Touch of Larceny'' (1959) * ''The Challenge'' (1960) * ''The Entertainer'' (1960) * ''The Guns of Navarone'' (1961) * ''Lord Jim'' (1965) * ''Duffy'' (1968) * ''Three into Two Won't Go'' (1969) * ''Toomorrow'' (1970)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0651544}}

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