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David Bretherton is a Editor American born on 29 february 1924 at Los Angeles (USA)

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Nationality USA
Birth 29 february 1924 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 11 may 2000 (at 76 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

David Bretherton (February 29, 1924 – May 11, 2000) was an American film editor with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996.

Bretherton, the son of editor/director Howard Bretherton and actress Dorothea McEvoy, was born in Los Angeles. He served with the United States Air Force during World War II. After World War II he joined the editing department at Twentieth Century-Fox, at first helping other editors, including Barbara McLean, Robert L. Simpson, Louis R. Loeffler, James B. Clark, William H. Reynolds, and, in later years, Dorothy Spencer and Hugh S. Fowler. His first project as a film editor was An Affair to Remember in 1954. In 1995, Bretherton received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Bretherton died of pneumonia in Los Angeles in 2000.

Bretherton's most noted work was the editing of the film Cabaret (1972), which was directed by Bob Fosse. Bretherton received the Academy Award for Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, and a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for this film. In his 1972 review, Roger Greenspun gives some insight into Bretherton's achievement:... the film has a musical part and a nonmusical part (except for Miss Minnelli, none of the major characters sings), and if you add this to the juxtaposition of private lives and public history inherent in the scheme of the Berlin Stories, you come up with a structure of extraordinary mechanical complexity. Since everything has to do with everything else and the Cabaret is always commenting on the life outside it, the film sometimes looks like an essay in significant crosscutting, or associative montage. Occasionally this fails; more often it works.

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Fils du monteur et réalisateur Howard Bretherton (1890-1969), David Bretherton débute lui-même comme monteur sur un documentaire sorti en 1955. Puis il contribue à quarante-neuf films, majoritairement américains, le premier étant Le Fond de la bouteille d'Henry Hathaway (1956, avec Van Johnson et Joseph Cotten).

S'y ajoutent quelques coproductions (dont le film franco-italo-américain Le Train de John Frankenheimer et Bernard Farrel en 1964, avec Burt Lancaster et Paul Scofield) et le film britannique La Grande Attaque du train d'or de Michael Crichton (1979, avec Sean Connery et Donald Sutherland).

Parmi ses autres films notables, citons Les Plaisirs de l'enfer de Mark Robson (1957, avec Lana Turner et Diane Varsi), Le Milliardaire de George Cukor (1960, avec Marilyn Monroe et Yves Montand), Le Chevalier des sables de Vincente Minnelli (1965, avec Elizabeth Taylor et Richard Burton), Cabaret de Bob Fosse (1972, avec Liza Minnelli et Michael York), ou encore Au-delà de la gloire de Samuel Fuller (1980, avec Lee Marvin et Mark Hamill).

Ses trois derniers films, réalisés par Harold Becker, sont Mélodie pour un meurtre (1989, avec Al Pacino et Ellen Barkin), Malice (coproduction américano-canadienne, 1993, avec Alec Baldwin et Nicole Kidman) et City Hall (1996, avec Al Pacino et John Cusack).

Le film musical Cabaret pré-cité permet à David Bretherton de gagner l'Oscar du meilleur montage en 1973, et d'obtenir une nomination au British Academy Film Award du meilleur montage, cette même année.