Antony Gibbs

For Antony Gibbs (1756–1816), see Antony Gibbs & Sons.

Antony Gibbs
An undated photo of Gibbs
Born(1925-10-17)17 October 1925
London, England
Died26 February 2016(2016-02-26) (aged 90)
England
Other namesTony Gibbs[a]
OccupationFilm editor
Years active1950s–2001
AwardsSee below
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch Royal Marines
ConflictsWorld War II

Antony Gibbs (17 October 1925 – 26 February 2016), sometimes credited as Tony Gibbs,[1] was an English film editor.[2] He was noted for his collaborations with directors Tony Richardson, Norman Jewison, Nicolas Roeg and Richard Lester and held more than 40 feature film credits.[2] Initially active during the British New Wave era, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing four times, for Performance (1970); Fiddler on the Roof (1971); Rollerball (1975) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He was also a two-time Primetime Emmy nominee.

Early life

Gibbs was born in London in 1925. His father, Harold, was a police officer, and his mother, Violet, was a cook.[3] He served in the Royal Marines during the Second World War.[3]

Career

Gibbs' editing career began in the mid-1950s as an assistant to Ralph Kemplen and to Alan Osbiston, and through them he became involved with the brief "New Wave" of British filmmaking at its beginnings. In particular Osbiston (and Gibbs) edited The Entertainer (1960), which was directed by Tony Richardson;[4] Richardson was one of the most prominent of the British New Wave directors. Gibbs was then principal editor for several of the subsequent "New Wave" films, including Richardson's A Taste of Honey (1961), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), and Tom Jones (1963),[5] and also The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965), which was directed by Richard Lester.

In his 1995 book, Film and Video Editing, Roger Crittenden notes the influence of this first phase of Gibbs' editing career, "The generation of American editors of which Dede Allen is a part has given considerable credit for the inspiration of their work to Antony Gibbs, the English editor of films directed by, amongst others, Tony Richardson, Nicolas Roeg, and Richard Lester. There is a daring and energetic quality to Tony Gibbs' work, especially in some sequences of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Tom Jones, The Knack, and Performance, which must have given a shot of adrenaline to aspiring editors on both sides of the Atlantic at the time. Dede ascribes her work on Bonnie and Clyde directly to the influence of Tony Gibbs."[6][7] Bonnie and Clyde (1967) "marked a turning point in the editing of feature films that sent reverberations through the entire American cinema."[8]

Gibbs was the "supervising editor" for Richardson's 1965 American film, The Loved One.[5] Gibbs relocated from England to California in about 1970.[4] From 1971–89 he had an extended collaboration with Norman Jewison that commenced with the well-received Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and ultimately extended over five films. Gibbs retired from filmmaking in 2001.

Gibbs' editing of Tom Jones (1963) was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie award. Tom Jones won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Richardson received the Academy Award for Best Director for it. Subsequent to his "New Wave" films, Gibbs was nominated four times for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, for the films Performance (directed by Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg-1970), Fiddler on the Roof (Jewison-1971), Rollerball (Jewison-1975), and A Bridge Too Far (Attenborough-1977). Gibbs was nominated again for ACE Eddie awards for Fiddler on the Roof and, much later in his career, he won Eddie awards for the television films George Wallace (Part II) (1997) and for James Dean (2001). Gibbs had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors,[9] and was the recipient of the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 2002.

Personal life

Gibbs was married three times, and had six children from two of them. He was a supporter of Chelsea F.C., and a classical music enthusiast.[3]

Death

Gibbs died on 26 February 2016 at the age of 90.[2]

Filmography

Year Title Director Notes Ref.
1960 The Unstoppable Man Terry Bishop [10]
Oscar Wilde Gregory Ratoff [10]
During One Night Sidney J. Furie 1st of 4 collaborations with Furie [10]
1961 Doctor Blood's Coffin [10]
The Snake Woman [10]
Offbeat Cliff Owen [10]
A Taste of Honey Tony Richardson 1st of 6 collaborations with Richardson [11]
1962 Tiara Tahiti Ted Kotcheff [10]
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Tony Richardson [10]
1963 Tom Jones [10]
1964 The Luck of Ginger Coffey Irvin Kershner [10]
1965 The Loved One Tony Richardson Supervising editor [10]
The Knack ...and How to Get It Richard Lester 1st of 4 collaborations with Lester [10]
1966 Mademoiselle Tony Richardson Co-editor with Sophie Coussein [10]
1967 The Sailor from Gibraltar [10]
1968 Petulia Richard Lester [10]
The Birthday Party William Friedkin [10]
1970 Performance
Co-editor with Brian Smedley-Aston and Frank Mazzola [10]
All the Right Noises Gerry O'Hara [10]
1971 Walkabout Nicolas Roeg Co-editor with Alan Pattillo [10]
Fiddler on the Roof Norman Jewison 1st of 6 collaborations with Jewison
Co-editor with Robert Lawrence 		[10]
1972 The Ragman's Daughter Harold Becker [10]
1973 Jesus Christ Superstar Norman Jewison [10]
1974 The Black Windmill Don Siegel [10]
Juggernaut Richard Lester [10]
1975 Rollerball Norman Jewison [10]
1976 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Lewis John Carlino [10]
1977 A Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough [10]
1978 F.I.S.T. Norman Jewison Supervising editor [10]
1979 Yesterday's Hero Neil Leifer [10]
1979 Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Richard Lester Supervising editor [10]
1980 The Wildcats of St Trinian's Frank Launder [10]
The Dogs of War John Irvin [10]
1981 From a Far Country Krzysztof Zanussi Co-editor with Paolo Fabbri and Waldemar Król
1981 Ragtime Miloš Forman Co-editor with Anne V. Coates and Stanley Warnow [10]
1983 Bad Boys Rick Rosenthal [10]
1984 Dune David Lynch [10]
1985 Agnes of God Norman Jewison [10]
1986 Tai-Pan Daryl Duke
1987 Russkies Rick Rosenthal
1988 Stealing Home
[10]
1989 In Country Norman Jewison Co-editor with Lou Lombardo [10]
1991 The Taking of Beverly Hills Sidney J. Furie [10]
1993 The Man Without a Face Mel Gibson [10]
1994 Don Juan DeMarco Jeremy Leven [10]
1998 Ronin John Frankenheimer [10]
2000 Reindeer Games Co-editor with Michael Kahn [10]
2003 Scorched Gavin Grazer Additional editor [10]
2005 Sahara Breck Eisner [10]

Television

Year Title Director Notes
1959 The Third Man
3 episodes
TV movies and miniseries
Year Film Director Notes
1992 Devlin Rick Rosenthal [10]
1996 A Case for Life Eric Laneuville
Crime of the Century Mark Rydell [10]
1997 George Wallace John Frankenheimer 1st of 3 collaborations with Frankenheimer [10]
2001 James Dean Mark Rydell [10]

Awards and nominations

Award Year Category Work Result
American Cinema Editors Award 1964 Best Edited Feature Film Tom Jones Nominated
1972 Fiddler on the Roof Nominated
1998 Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television George Wallace ("Part II") Won
2002 James Dean Won
Career Achievement Award N/a Won
British Academy Film Award 1972 Best Editing Performance Nominated
Fiddler on the Roof Nominated
1976 Rollerball Nominated
1978 A Bridge Too Far Nominated
CableACE Award 1997 Editing a Dramatic Special or Series/Movie or Miniseries George Wallace Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award 1997 Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie Crime of the Century[12] Nominated
2002 James Dean[12] Nominated

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Gibbs is billed as "Tony Gibbs" in The Man Without a Face, Don Juan DeMarco, Ronin, and Reindeer Games.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tony Gibbs". American Film Institute. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Dagan, Carmel (2 March 2016). "Antony Gibbs, Editor of 'Dune,' 'Fiddler on the Roof,' Dies at 90". Variety.
  3. ^ a b c Gibbs, Lesley; Lumley, Tessa (16 May 2016). "Tony Gibbs obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  4. ^ a b "Gibbs, Antony Biography". BFI Screenonline. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2010. Based on Perkins, Roy; Stollery, Martin (2004). British Film Editors: The Heart of the Movie. British Film Institute.
  5. ^ a b Taylor, Charles (30 July 2006). "Richardson's Lively Disaster: Waugh's The Loved One". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 12 March 2008. Richardson's style changed abruptly with 1963's Tom Jones. He employed a commercialized version of French New Wave techniques, and the film was hugely popular, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. But the jump-cutting, the straight-to-camera digressions and the generally antic tone were wildly inappropriate for an adaptation of an 18th-century novel, and the movie has by now dated to the point of being a curio.
  6. ^ Crittenden, Roger (28 September 1995). Film and Video Editing, Second Edition. Psychology Press. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-1-85713-011-9.
  7. ^ LoBrutto, Vincent (1991). Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing. ABC-CLIO. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-275-93395-1. LoBrutto interview of Dede Allen: Were the films you edited in the 1960s influenced by the changes in film style that were coming from Europe? There was a definite evolution in filmic style, and it came from England. The "angry young men" films that Tony Gibbs cut, Look Back in Anger and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, had more direct influence on me than anything. I loved the way those pictures were cut. It was incorporated into pictures cut in New York like Bonnie and Clyde. Allen's recollection that Gibbs cut Look Back in Anger (1958) appears to be erroneous; Richard Best edited that film.
  8. ^ Monaco, Paul (2003). Harpole, Charles (ed.). History of the American Cinema Volume 8: The Sixties. University of California Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-520-23804-6.
  9. ^ "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw "Antony Gibbs". BFI Collections. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  11. ^ "A Taste of Honey (1961)". BFI. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  12. ^ a b "Tony Gibbs". Television Academy. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
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