Ray Lovejoy

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{short description|British film editor}} {{Infobox person | name = Ray Lovejoy | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|2|18|df=y}} | birth_place = United Kingdom | death_date = {{death date and age|2001|10|18|1939|2|18|df=y}} | death_place = United Kingdom | occupation = Film editor }}

'''Ray Lovejoy''' (18 February 1939 – 18 October 2001) was a British film editor with about thirty editing credits.<ref name="tcm">{{cite web |title=Ray Lovejoy |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=116745 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313203810/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=116745 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 March 2012 |work=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref><ref name="imdb">{{IMDb name|0522487}}</ref>

==Career== He had a notable collaboration with director Peter Yates that extended over six films including ''The Dresser'' (1983), which was nominated for numerous BAFTA Awards and Academy Awards.

Lovejoy was an assistant to editor Anne V. Coates for films from ''The Horse's Mouth'' (1958) to ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962).<ref>{{cite journal |title=COATES of Many Colors: The Varied Career of Anne V. Coates |last=Lewis |first=Kevin |work=Editors' Guild Magazine |date=March–April 2010 |volume=31 |issue=2 |url=https://www.editorsguild.com/Magazine.cfm?ArticleID=831 }}</ref> He was next an assistant to editor Anthony Harvey on ''Dr. Strangelove'' (1964), which was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Harvey subsequently became a director himself, and Kubrick promoted Lovejoy to be the editor for his subsequent film ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968).<ref>{{citation |title=Stanley Kubrick: A Biography |last=Lobrutto |first=Vince |page=307 |publisher=Da Capo |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-306-80906-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fU78LdDClHUC&pg=PA307}}. Reprint of 1997 edition.</ref> Kubrick and Lovejoy next worked together on ''The Shining'' (1980); Kubrick worked with other editors for his two films from the 1970s.

Stephen Prince described Lovejoy's contributions to 1980s films as follows, "Ray Lovejoy cut Stanley Kubrick's ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968), and he worked again with Kubrick on ''The Shining'' and supplied that film with an entirely different--tenser, more foreboding--texture than the stately science-fiction film possesses. Lovejoy also proved adept at editing for blockbuster effect. His cutting in ''Aliens'' sustained that sequel's narrative momentum with a speed and tension that its predecessor did not have, and his editing on ''Batman'' finessed that film's gaping narrative problems by simply rushing past them."<ref>{{cite book |last=Prince |first=Stephen |title=A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow 1980-1989 (Volume 10 of History of the American cinema) |page=196 |year=2002 |publisher=University of California Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UyWmUV7WefgC&pg=PA196 }}</ref>

In 1987, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on the film ''Aliens'' (1986).<ref name=tcm /> In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild published a list of the 75 best-edited films of all time based on a survey of its members. Two films edited by Lovejoy are on this listing. ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' was listed nineteenth, and ''The Shining'' was listed as forty-fourth.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The 75 Best Edited Films |work=Editors Guild Magazine |date=May 2012 |volume=1 |issue=3 |url=https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317101140/https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 |archivedate=2015-03-17}}</ref>

==Death== Lovejoy died of a heart attack on 18 October 2001.

==Filmography== This filmography is based on the Internet Movie Database.<ref name=imdb />

{| class="wikitable" |+ Editor |- ! Year ! Film ! Director ! Notes |- |1968 | ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' |Stanley Kubrick |Second collaboration with Stanley Kubrick |- |rowspan=3| 1972 | ''The Ruling Class'' |rowspan=2| Peter Medak |First collaboration with Peter Medak |- | ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'' |Second collaboration with Peter Medak |- | ''Fear Is the Key'' |Michael Tuchner | |- |rowspan=2| 1974 | ''Little Malcolm'' |Stuart Cooper | |- | ''Ghost in the Noonday Sun'' |Peter Medak |Third collaboration with Peter Medak |- |rowspan=2| 1975 | ''Never Too Young to Rock'' |Dennis Abey | |- | ''Side by Side'' |Bruce Beresford | |- |1980 | ''The Shining'' |Stanley Kubrick |Third collaboration with Stanley Kubrick |- |rowspan=2| 1983 | ''Krull'' |rowspan=2| Peter Yates |First collaboration with Peter Yates |- | ''The Dresser'' |Second collaboration with Peter Yates |- |1984 | ''Sheena'' |John Guillermin | |- |1985 | ''Eleni'' |Peter Yates |Third collaboration with Peter Yates |- |1986 | ''Aliens'' |James Cameron | |- |1987 | ''Suspect'' |rowspan=2| Peter Yates |Fourth collaboration with Peter Yates |- |rowspan=2| 1988 | ''The House on Carroll Street'' |Fifth collaboration with Peter Yates |- | ''Homeboy'' |Michael Seresin | |- |1989 | ''Batman'' |Tim Burton | |- |1990 | ''Mister Frost'' |Philippe Setbon | |- |1991 | ''Let Him Have It'' |Peter Medak |Fourth collaboration with Peter Medak |- |1992 | ''Year of the Comet'' |Peter Yates |Sixth collaboration with Peter Yates |- |1993 | ''A Far Off Place'' |Mikael Salomon | |- |1994 | ''Monkey Trouble'' |Franco Amurri | |- |1995 | ''Rainbow'' |Bob Hoskins | |- |1996 | ''The Last of the High Kings'' |David Keating | |- |1997 | ''Inventing the Abbotts'' |Pat O'Connor | |- |1998 | ''Lost in Space'' |Stephen Hopkins | |- |1999 | ''Running Free'' |rowspan=2| Sergei Bodrov |First collaboration with Sergei Bodrov |- |2001 | ''The Quickie'' |Second collaboration with Sergei Bodrov |- |2002 | ''Vacuums'' |{{ubl|Luke Cresswell|Steve McNicholas}} | |}

{| class="wikitable" |+ Editorial department |- ! Year ! Film ! Director ! Role ! Notes |- |1957 | ''Time Lock'' |Gerald Thomas |Second assistant editor |rowspan=5| <small>{{center|Uncredited}}</small> |- |1958 | ''The Horse's Mouth'' |rowspan=2| Ronald Neame |rowspan=6| Assistant editor |- |1960 | ''Tunes of Glory'' |- |1961 | ''Don't Bother to Knock'' |Cyril Frankel |- |1962 | ''Lawrence of Arabia'' |David Lean |- |1964 | ''Dr. Strangelove'' |Stanley Kubrick |First collaboration with Stanley Kubrick |- |1965 | ''The Spy Who Came In from the Cold'' |Martin Ritt |<small>{{center|Uncredited}}</small> |}

;Documentaries

{| class="wikitable" |+ Director |- ! Year ! Film |- |1976 | ''Radio 1 on the Road'' |}

{| class="wikitable" |+ Producer |- ! Year ! Film ! Director ! Credit |- |1976 | ''Radio 1 on the Road'' |Himself |Producer |}

;TV series

{| class="wikitable" |+ Editor |- ! Year ! Title ! Notes |- |1977 | ''Space: 1999'' |rowspan=2| 1 episode |- |1996 | ''Kindred: The Embraced'' |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{imdb name|0522487}} *{{YouTube |F7HGwVqI_FM |Stanley Kubrick - 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) - Making of a Myth}} includes interview footage with Lovejoy.

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