Peter Tanner


Peter Tanner was a British film editor. After beginning his career editing quota quickies in the 1930s, he then worked on documentaries during the Second World War. He briefly worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1945, editing footage of the liberated concentration camps. He was later employed by Ealing Studios, working on films such as Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Blue Lamp.
During the mid-1960s he edited a number of episodes of The Avengers television series. He had a lengthy career lasting into the late 1990s.

Selected filmography

Double Alibi Murder in the Family Dial 999 Lady from Lisbon Sabotage at Sea Kind Hearts and Coronets Cage of Gold The Blue Lamp Pool of London The Gentle Gunman I Believe in You Secret People The Cruel Sea Lease of Life Touch and Go The Night My Number Came Up Who Done It? The Man in the Sky Davy The Angry Hills A Terrible Beauty Light Up the Sky! Greyfriars Bobby Sodom and Gomorrah Tamahine A Jolly Bad Fellow Diamonds for Breakfast The Best House in London I, Monster The House That Dripped Blood What Became of Jack and Jill? Asylum And Now the Screaming Starts! The Beast Must Die The Maids Hedda Spectre Wombling Free The Thief of Baghdad Game for Vultures The Hard Way The Monster Club Merlin and the Sword Turtle Diary Hamburger Hill Taffin Eminent Domain Robin Hood Widows' Peak A Month by the Lake