Walker, Lesley
WALKER, Lesley
(Leslie Walker)
PERSONAL
Addresses:
Manager—Sandra Marsh Management, 9150 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 220, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
Career:
Film editor.
Awards, Honors:
Television Award nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, best editing, 1982, for Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years; Film Award nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1987, best editing, for Mona Lisa; Film Award nomination, best editing, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1988, for Cry Freedom; Apex Award nomination, Chrystfferssen Maakorey, best film editing—comedy, 1991, for The Fisher King; Video Premiere Award nomination, DVD Exclusive awards, best editing, 2001, for Grey Owl; DVDX Award nomination, best editing of a DVD premiere movie, 2003, for The Sleeping Dictionary.
CREDITS
Film Editor:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Howard Mahler, 1977.
Eagle's Wing, Rank Organization, 1978.
Love and Bullets, Associated Film, 1979.
The Tempest, Zeitgeist Films, 1979.
Richard's Things, New World, 1980.
Ill Fares the Land, 1982.
Meantime, 1983.
Winter Flight, Cinecom International, 1984.
A Letter to Brezhnev, Circle Releasing, 1985.
Mona Lisa, Island Pictures, 1986.
Cry Freedom, Universal, 1987.
Buster, TriStar, 1988.
Shirley Valentine, Paramount, 1989.
The Fisher King, TriStar, 1991.
Waterland, Fine Line Features, 1992.
Born Yesterday, Savoy Pictures, 1993.
Shadowlands, Savoy Pictures, 1993.
Jack and Sarah, Gramercy, 1995.
Emma, Miramax, 1996.
In Love and War, New Line Cinema/Warner Bros., 1996.
Mary Reilly, TriStar, 1996.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Universal, 1998.
Grey Owl, New City Releasing, 1999.
Kin, 2000.
The Body, Avalanche Releasing, 2001.
All or Nothing, United Artists, 2002.
Nicholas Nickleby, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 2002.
The Sleeping Dictionary, Fine Line Features, 2003.
The Brothers Grimm, Dimension Films, 2005.
Tideland, 2006.
Film Assistant Editor:
Funeral in Berlin, Paramount, 1966.
The Lion in Winter, Avco–Embassy, 1968.
The Last Valley, Cinerama, 1971.
Television Film Editor:
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (miniseries), Southern Television, 1981, later broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, c. 1983.
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (movie; also known as Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming), TNT, 1990.
(As Leslie Walker) Act without Words I (special), BBC, 2000, Raidio Teilifis Eireann, 2001.
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