David Bretherton

David L. Bretherton was an American film editor with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996.
Bretherton, the son of editor/director Howard Bretherton and actress Dorothea McEvoy, was born in Los Angeles. He served with the United States Air Force during World War II. After World War II, he joined the editing department at Twentieth Century-Fox, at first helping other editors, including Barbara McLean, Robert L. Simpson, Louis R. Loeffler, James B. Clark, William H. Reynolds, and, in later years, Dorothy Spencer and Hugh S. Fowler. His first project as a film editor was The Bottom of the Bottle in 1956. In 1995, Bretherton received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Bretherton died of pneumonia in Los Angeles in 2000.
Bretherton's most noted work was the editing of the film Cabaret, which was directed by Bob Fosse. Bretherton received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, and a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for this film. In his 1972 review, Roger Greenspun gives some insight into Bretherton's achievement:
Cabaret was listed as the 30th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1974	The Super Cops	Gordon Parks	Consulting editor
1980	The Big Red One	Samuel Fuller	Supervising editor
1980	Caddyshack	Harold Ramis	Supervising editor
1980	The Formula	John G. Avildsen	Supervising editor	Second collaboration with John G. Avildsen

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1970	On a [Clear Day You Can See Forever (film)\|On a Clear Day You Can See Forever]	Vincente Minnelli	A Barber	Uncredited

Year	Film	Director	Role
1970	Emiliano Zapata	Felipe Cazals	Technical supervisor

;Documentaries

Year	Film	Director
1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	Gene Kelly

;Shorts

;TV series

Year	Title	Notes
1959−60	Five Fingers	2 episodes
1961	Follow [the Sun (TV series)\|Follow the Sun]	2 episodes
1962−63	Empire	2 episodes

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	Empire	Assistant to the producer	3 episodes

;TV specials

Year	Title	Director
1968	The Bing Crosby Special	Marc Breaux