Inman Hunter (25 August 1914 – July 1986) was a British film editor who worked in both Australia and England from 1938 to 1969.

Career

His first film editing project was for

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's 1938 crime thriller ''

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''. He then went to Australia in 1945 to work on the 1946 film '' The Overlanders''. He returned to Australia in 1946 on a special

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, a trip that achieved much publicity at the time, and worked at

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. He then worked in Australian film production for several years, also providing the original story for the 1959 film '' The Siege of Pinchgut''. Hunter later returned to England, where he worked mainly in television, editing until 1969. He also served as supervising editor on the 1949 film ''

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Partial filmography

Film

* '' Secret of Stamboul'' (1936) * '' Kate Plus Ten'' (1938) * '' Dreaming'' (1945) *'' The Overlanders'' (1946) * ''

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'' (1948) *''

'' (1949) *'' Mike and Stefani'' (1952) *''

Little Red Monkey ''Little Red Monkey'' (U.S. title: ''The'' ''Case of the Red Monkey'') is a 1955 British thriller film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Richard Conte, Rona Anderson and Russell Napier. The screenplay was by Hughes and James Eastwood, based ...

'' (1955) *''

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'' (1955)

Television

*''A Matter of Manners'' (1951) *''

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'' (1956–58) *''

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'' (1958) *'' Dial 999'' (1958–59) *''

Interpol Calling ''Interpol Calling'' is a British television crime drama series produced by Rank Organisation and Jack Wrather, Jack Wrather Productions for ITC Entertainment. The programme, which ran for one series of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes 1959–19 ...

'' (1960) *''The Golden Ring - The Making of Solti's "Ring"'' (BBC/Austrian Television documentary) (1965) *''

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'' (1966–68) *''

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'' (1969)

Screenwriter

*'' The Siege of Pinchgut'' (1959) – original story

References

External links

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