{{Short description|British film editor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Inman Hunter | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Edward Inman Hunter | birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1914|08|25}} | birth_place = Lincolnshire, England, UK | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1986|07|01|1914|08|25}} | death_place = Richmond, Surrey, England, UK | other_names = E. M. Inman Hunter<br/>E. M. Hunter | known_for = | occupation = film and television editor | years_active= 1938-1972 }}
'''Inman Hunter''' (25 August 1914 – July 1986) was a British film editor who worked in both Australia and England from 1938 to 1969.
==Career== His first film editing project was for Reginald Denham's 1938 crime thriller ''Queen of Crime''. He then went to Australia in 1945 to work on the 1946 film ''The Overlanders''. He returned to Australia in 1946 on a special Halifax bomber, a trip that achieved much publicity at the time,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17976695 |title=Mystery Girl Flying To Australia Soon. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=18 April 1946 |accessdate=9 April 2012 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and worked at Film Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18499371 |title=SOMETHING NEW IN LOCAL FILMS. |newspaper=The Sunday Herald |location=Sydney |date=17 December 1950 |accessdate=9 April 2012 |page=5 Supplement: Sunday Herald Features |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He then worked in Australian film production for several years, also providing the original story for the 1959 film ''The Siege of Pinchgut''.<ref name="watt">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/wrecking-australian-stories-the-siege-of-pinchgut/|date=5 January 2024|access-date=5 January 2024|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=Wrecking Australian stories: The Siege of Pinchgut}}</ref>
Hunter later returned to England, where he worked mainly in television, editing until 1969.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090527142309/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/26325?view=credit Inman Hunter] at BFI Database</ref> He also served as supervising editor on the 1949 film ''Alice in Wonderland''.<ref>[http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.sl.nsw.gov.au/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=slnsw_public&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS134451611&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 David Robinson. 'Cinema' '' Times [London, England]'' 27 Dec. 1985: 8. The Times Digital Archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120729095850/http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.sl.nsw.gov.au/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=slnsw_public&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS134451611&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 |date=29 July 2012 }} 22 Apr. 2012</ref>
==Partial filmography==
===Film=== * ''Secret of Stamboul'' (1936) * ''Kate Plus Ten'' (1938) * ''Dreaming'' (1945) *''The Overlanders'' (1946) * ''The Monkey's Paw'' (1948) *''Alice in Wonderland'' (1949) *''Mike and Stefani'' (1952) *''Little Red Monkey'' (1955) *''Children Galore'' (1955)
===Television=== *''A Matter of Manners'' (1951) *''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1956–58) *''The New Adventures of Charlie Chan'' (1958) *''Dial 999'' (1958–59) *''Interpol Calling'' (1960) *''The Golden Ring - The Making of Solti's "Ring"'' (BBC/Austrian Television documentary) (1965) *''The Saint'' (1966–68) *''Journey to the Unknown'' (1968–69) *''The Champions'' (1969)
===Screenwriter=== *''The Siege of Pinchgut'' (1959) – original story
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=Person%3A%22%2FPerson%2Fkey%2F76169-1%22;querytype=;resCount=10 Inman Hunter] at National Film and Sound Archive *{{IMDb name|0402850}}
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