Ray Lovejoy


Ray Lovejoy was a British film editor with about thirty editing credits.

Career

He had a notable collaboration with director Peter Yates that extended over six films including The Dresser, 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 to Lawrence of Arabia. He was next an assistant to editor Anthony Harvey on Dr. Strangelove, 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. Kubrick and Lovejoy next worked together on The Shining ; 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, 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."
In 1987, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on the film Aliens. 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.

Death

Lovejoy died of a heart attack on 18 October 2001.

Filmography

This filmography is based on the Internet Movie Database.
YearFilmDirectorNotes
19682001: A Space OdysseyStanley KubrickSecond collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
1972The Ruling ClassPeter MedakFirst collaboration with Peter Medak
1972A Day in the Death of [Joe Egg |A Day in the Death of Joe Egg]Peter MedakSecond collaboration with Peter Medak
1972Fear Is the KeyMichael Tuchner
1974Little MalcolmStuart Cooper
1974Ghost in the Noonday SunPeter MedakThird collaboration with Peter Medak
1975Never Too Young to RockDennis Abey
1975Side by SideBruce Beresford
1980The ShiningStanley KubrickThird collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
1983KrullPeter YatesFirst collaboration with Peter Yates
1983The DresserPeter YatesSecond collaboration with Peter Yates
1984SheenaJohn Guillermin
1985EleniPeter YatesThird collaboration with Peter Yates
1986AliensJames Cameron
1987SuspectPeter YatesFourth collaboration with Peter Yates
1988The House on Carroll StreetPeter YatesFifth collaboration with Peter Yates
1988HomeboyMichael Seresin
1989BatmanTim Burton
1990Mister FrostPhilippe Setbon
1991Let Him Have ItPeter MedakFourth collaboration with Peter Medak
1992Year of the CometPeter YatesSixth collaboration with Peter Yates
1993A Far Off PlaceMikael Salomon
1994Monkey TroubleFranco Amurri
1995RainbowBob Hoskins
1996The Last of the High KingsDavid Keating
1997Inventing the AbbottsPat O'Connor
1998Lost in SpaceStephen Hopkins
1999Running FreeSergei BodrovFirst collaboration with Sergei Bodrov
2001The QuickieSergei BodrovSecond collaboration with Sergei Bodrov
2002Vacuums

YearFilmDirectorRoleNotes
1957Time LockGerald ThomasSecond assistant editorUncredited
1958The Horse's MouthRonald NeameAssistant editorUncredited
1960Tunes of GloryRonald NeameAssistant editorUncredited
1961Don't Bother to KnockCyril FrankelAssistant editorUncredited
1962Lawrence of ArabiaDavid LeanAssistant editorUncredited
1964Dr. StrangeloveStanley KubrickAssistant editorFirst collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
1965The Spy Who Came [In from the Cold |The Spy Who Came In from the Cold]Martin RittAssistant editorUncredited

;Documentaries
YearFilmDirectorCredit
1976Radio 1 on the RoadHimselfProducer

;TV series
YearTitleNotes
1977Space: 19991 episode
1996Kindred: The Embraced1 episode