James Needs (17 October 1919 – 4 February 2003) was a British

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

associated with his work at

Hammer Film Productions Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic horror and fantasy films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Many of these involve classi ...

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Selected filmography

* '' Snowbound'' (1948) * ''

The Bad Lord Byron ''The Bad Lord Byron'' is a 1949 British historical drama film about the life of Lord Byron. It was directed by David MacDonald (director), David MacDonald and starred Dennis Price as Byron with Mai Zetterling, Linden Travers and Joan Greenwood. ...

'' (1949) * '' A Boy, a Girl and a Bike'' (1949) * '' Room to Let'' (1950) * ''

A Case for PC 49 ''A Case for PC 49'' is a 1951 British second feature ('B') crime drama directed by Francis Searle and starring Brian Reece, Joy Shelton and Christine Norden. It was written by Vernon Harris, Francis Searle and Alan Stranks, based on the popu ...

'' (1951) * '' To Have and to Hold'' (1951) * ''

Whispering Smith Hits London ''Whispering Smith Hits London'' (U.S. title ''Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard'') is a 1952 British second feature ('B') crime drama directed by Francis Searle and starring Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt and Herbert Lom. The screenplay was by ...

'' (1952) * ''

Wings of Danger ''Wings of Danger'' is a 1952 British second feature crime film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty and Kay Kendall. The screenplay, based on the 1951 story ''Dead on Course'' by Trevor Dudley Smith and Packh ...

'' (1952) * ''

Lady in the Fog ''Lady in the Fog'' (U.S. title: ''Scotland Yard Inspector'') is a 1952 British mystery film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell and Bernadette O'Farrell. It was written by Orville H. Hampton based on the 1947 BBC r ...

'' (1952) * ''

Girdle of Gold ''Girdle of Gold'' is a 1952 British second feature comedy film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Esmond Knight, Maudie Edwards and Meredith Edwards. It was written by Jack Dawe. Plot In a small Welsh town, Griffiths the Hearse, a craft ...

'' (1952) * '' The Flanagan Boy'' (1953) * '' The House Across the Lake'' (1954) * ''

The Men of Sherwood Forest ''Men of Sherwood Forest'' is a 1954 British historical adventure film directed by Val Guest and starring Don Taylor, Reginald Beckwith, Eileen Moore, Douglas Wilmer, John Van Eyssen and David King-Wood. The film follows the exploits of Robin ...

'' (1954) * '' The Glass Cage'' (1955) * ''

The Quatermass Xperiment ''The Quatermass Xperiment'' (a.k.a. ''The Creeping Unknown'' in the United States) is a 1955 British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions, based on the 1953 BBC Television serial '' The Quatermass Experiment'' written by ...

'' (1955) * ''

X the Unknown ''X the Unknown'' is a 1956 British science fiction horror film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Dean Jagger, Leo McKern and Edward Chapman. It was made by the Hammer Film Productions company and written by Jimmy Sangster, at the sug ...

'' (1956) * ''

The Curse of Frankenstein ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions, loosely based on the 1818 novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus '' by Mary Shelley. It was Hammer's first colour horror film, and the first of t ...

'' (1957) * '' The Snorkel'' (1957) * ''

Quatermass 2 ''Quatermass 2'' (retitled ''Enemy From Space'' in the United States and Canada) is a 1957 black-and-white British science fiction horror film drama from Hammer Film Productions. It was originally released in the UK as ''Quatermass II'' and w ...

'' (1957) * ''

The Mummy A mummy is an unusually well preserved corpse. Mummy or The Mummy may also refer to: Places * Mummy Range, a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado in the United States * Mummy Cave, a rock shelter and archeological site in P ...

'' (1959) * ''

A Weekend with Lulu ''A Weekend with Lulu'', also known as ''A Week-end with Lulu'', is a 1961 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Alfred Marks, Shirley Eaton and Irene Handl. The screenplay was by ...

'' (1961) * '' The Witches'' (1966) * '' Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde'' (1971)

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* 1919 births 2003 deaths British film editors {{UK-film-bio-stub