# Ray Lovejoy

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{{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](/source/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](/source/List_of_film_director_and_editor_collaborations) with director [Peter Yates](/source/Peter_Yates) that extended over six films including ''[The Dresser](/source/The_Dresser_(1983_film))'' (1983), which was nominated for numerous [BAFTA Awards](/source/BAFTA_Awards) and [Academy Awards](/source/Academy_Awards).

Lovejoy was an assistant to editor [Anne V. Coates](/source/Anne_V._Coates) for films from ''[The Horse's Mouth](/source/The_Horse's_Mouth_(film))'' (1958) to ''[Lawrence of Arabia](/source/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film))'' (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 }}<!--has 1958 photo of Lovejoy and Coates.--></ref><!--Seems likely that Lovejoy assisted Coates on films in between, but this isn't documented.--> He was next an assistant to editor [Anthony Harvey](/source/Anthony_Harvey) on ''[Dr. Strangelove](/source/Dr._Strangelove)'' (1964), which was produced and directed by [Stanley Kubrick](/source/Stanley_Kubrick). Harvey subsequently became a director himself, and Kubrick promoted Lovejoy to be the editor for his subsequent film ''[2001: A Space Odyssey](/source/2001%3A_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](/source/The_Shining_(film))'' (1980); Kubrick worked with other editors for his two films from the 1970s.

[Stephen Prince](/source/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](/source/1987_in_film), he was nominated for the [Academy Award for Best Film Editing](/source/Academy_Award_for_Best_Film_Editing) for his work on the film ''[Aliens](/source/Aliens_(film))'' (1986).<ref name=tcm /> In 2012, the [Motion Picture Editors Guild](/source/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](/source/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](/source/2001%3A_A_Space_Odyssey)''
|[Stanley Kubrick](/source/Stanley_Kubrick)
|Second collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
|-
|rowspan=3| 1972
| ''[The Ruling Class](/source/The_Ruling_Class_(film))''
|rowspan=2| [Peter Medak](/source/Peter_Medak)
|First collaboration with Peter Medak
|-
| ''[A Day in the Death of Joe Egg](/source/A_Day_in_the_Death_of_Joe_Egg_(film))''
|Second collaboration with Peter Medak
|-
| ''[Fear Is the Key](/source/Fear_Is_the_Key_(film))''
|[Michael Tuchner](/source/Michael_Tuchner)
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 1974
| ''[Little Malcolm](/source/Little_Malcolm)''
|[Stuart Cooper](/source/Stuart_Cooper)
|
|-
| ''[Ghost in the Noonday Sun](/source/Ghost_in_the_Noonday_Sun)''
|Peter Medak
|Third collaboration with Peter Medak
|-
|rowspan=2| 1975
| ''[Never Too Young to Rock](/source/Never_Too_Young_to_Rock)''
|Dennis Abey
|
|-
| ''[Side by Side](/source/Side_by_Side_(1975_film))''
|[Bruce Beresford](/source/Bruce_Beresford)
|
|-
|1980
| ''[The Shining](/source/The_Shining_(film))''
|Stanley Kubrick
|Third collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
|-
|rowspan=2| 1983
| ''[Krull](/source/Krull_(film))''
|rowspan=2| [Peter Yates](/source/Peter_Yates)
|First collaboration with Peter Yates
|-
| ''[The Dresser](/source/The_Dresser_(1983_film))''
|Second collaboration with Peter Yates
|-
|1984
| ''[Sheena](/source/Sheena_(film))''
|[John Guillermin](/source/John_Guillermin)
|
|-
|1985
| ''[Eleni](/source/Eleni_(film))''
|Peter Yates
|Third collaboration with Peter Yates
|-
|1986
| ''[Aliens](/source/Aliens_(film))''
|[James Cameron](/source/James_Cameron)
|
|-
|1987
| ''[Suspect](/source/Suspect_(1987_film))''
|rowspan=2| Peter Yates
|Fourth collaboration with Peter Yates
|-
|rowspan=2| 1988
| ''[The House on Carroll Street](/source/The_House_on_Carroll_Street)''
|Fifth collaboration with Peter Yates
|-
| ''[Homeboy](/source/Homeboy_(film))''
|[Michael Seresin](/source/Michael_Seresin)
|
|-
|1989
| ''[Batman](/source/Batman_(1989_film))''
|[Tim Burton](/source/Tim_Burton)
|
|-
|1990
| ''[Mister Frost](/source/Mister_Frost)''
|Philippe Setbon
|
|-
|1991
| ''[Let Him Have It](/source/Let_Him_Have_It)''
|Peter Medak
|Fourth collaboration with Peter Medak
|-
|1992
| ''[Year of the Comet](/source/Year_of_the_Comet)''
|Peter Yates
|Sixth collaboration with Peter Yates
|-
|1993
| ''[A Far Off Place](/source/A_Far_Off_Place)''
|[Mikael Salomon](/source/Mikael_Salomon)
|
|-
|1994
| ''[Monkey Trouble](/source/Monkey_Trouble)''
|[Franco Amurri](/source/Franco_Amurri)
|
|-
|1995
| ''[Rainbow](/source/Rainbow_(1996_film))''
|[Bob Hoskins](/source/Bob_Hoskins)
|
|-
|1996
| ''[The Last of the High Kings](/source/The_Last_of_the_High_Kings)''
|David Keating
|
|-
|1997
| ''[Inventing the Abbotts](/source/Inventing_the_Abbotts)''
|[Pat O'Connor](/source/Pat_O'Connor_(director))
|
|-
|1998
| ''[Lost in Space](/source/Lost_in_Space_(film))''
|[Stephen Hopkins](/source/Stephen_Hopkins_(director))
|
|-
|1999
| ''[Running Free](/source/Running_Free_(film))''
|rowspan=2| [Sergei Bodrov](/source/Sergei_Bodrov)
|First collaboration with Sergei Bodrov
|-
|2001
| ''The Quickie''
|Second collaboration with Sergei Bodrov
|-
|2002
| ''Vacuums''
|{{ubl|[Luke Cresswell](/source/Luke_Cresswell)|[Steve McNicholas](/source/Steve_McNicholas)}}
|
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Editorial department
|-
! Year
! Film
! Director
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1957
| ''[Time Lock](/source/Time_Lock)''
|[Gerald Thomas](/source/Gerald_Thomas)
|Second assistant editor
|rowspan=5| <small>{{center|Uncredited}}</small>
|-
|1958
| ''[The Horse's Mouth](/source/The_Horse's_Mouth_(film))''
|rowspan=2| [Ronald Neame](/source/Ronald_Neame)
|rowspan=6| Assistant editor
|-
|1960
| ''[Tunes of Glory](/source/Tunes_of_Glory)''
|-
|1961
| ''[Don't Bother to Knock](/source/Don't_Bother_to_Knock_(1961_film))''
|[Cyril Frankel](/source/Cyril_Frankel)
|-
|1962
| ''[Lawrence of Arabia](/source/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film))''
|[David Lean](/source/David_Lean)
|-
|1964
| ''[Dr. Strangelove](/source/Dr._Strangelove)''
|Stanley Kubrick
|First collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
|-
|1965
| ''[The Spy Who Came In from the Cold](/source/The_Spy_Who_Came_In_from_the_Cold_(film))''
|[Martin Ritt](/source/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](/source/Space%3A_1999)''
|rowspan=2| 1 episode
|-
|1996
| ''[Kindred: The Embraced](/source/Kindred%3A_The_Embraced)''
|}

==See also==
*[List of film director and editor collaborations](/source/List_of_film_director_and_editor_collaborations)

==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.<!--additional resources listed in a reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/2muy2r/are_there_any_interviews_with_ray_lovejoy_editor/-->

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