Reginald Mills

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Reginald Cuthbert Mills 15 September 1912 1990 was an English film editor He graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in modern languages in 1934 He spent World War II serving in the Royal Artillery and was stationed in an AA battery on the Thames Estuary throughout the whole of the London Blitz After the war he began a fruitful association with the filmmaking partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger beginning in 1946 with A Matter of Life and Death followed by Black Narcissus 1947 Mills received an Academy Award nomination in 1948 for his work on the duos ballet masterpiece The Red Shoes Mills edited many British films throughout the 50s 60s and 70s including The Spanish Gardener 1956 Joseph Loseys The Servant 1963 and The Tales of Beatrix Potter 1971 He received BAFTA nominations for his work on two projects with director Franco Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet 1968 and Jesus of Nazareth 1977 His last credit was as consulting editor on another Zeffirellli picture The Champ in 1979 Description above from the Wikipedia article Reginald Mills licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia