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Hugh A. Robertson is a Actor, Director, Producer, Editor and Sound Effects Editor American born on 28 may 1932 at Brooklyn (USA)
Hugh A. Robertson (May 28, 1932-January 10, 1988) was an African-American film director and editor. While Robertson was credited as an editor for only three films, Midnight Cowboy (directed by John Schlesinger-1969) earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the same film.
Robertson subsequently edited Gordon Parks' 1971 film Shaft, which was his last credit as a film editor. By this time Robertson had turned to directing. In addition to television programs and documentaries, he directed the feature Melinda (1972). He spent most of his remaining life in Trinidad and Tobago. There he produced and directed the film Bim (1975), and ran a filmmaking school. He returned to the United States in 1986.
(1969)
(Editor)
(1971)
(Editor)
(1962)
(Sound Effects Editor)
(1965)
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Nationality USA
Birth 28 may 1932 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 10 january 1988 (at 55 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards BAFTA Award for Best Editing
Birth 28 may 1932 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 10 january 1988 (at 55 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards BAFTA Award for Best Editing
Hugh A. Robertson (May 28, 1932-January 10, 1988) was an African-American film director and editor. While Robertson was credited as an editor for only three films, Midnight Cowboy (directed by John Schlesinger-1969) earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the same film.
Robertson subsequently edited Gordon Parks' 1971 film Shaft, which was his last credit as a film editor. By this time Robertson had turned to directing. In addition to television programs and documentaries, he directed the feature Melinda (1972). He spent most of his remaining life in Trinidad and Tobago. There he produced and directed the film Bim (1975), and ran a filmmaking school. He returned to the United States in 1986.
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Sharpe's Mission (1996)
, 1h40Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Abigail Cruttenden, Hugh Fraser, Hugh A. Robertson, Mark Strong
Roles Wellington
Rating78%
It is 1813. France is losing the war. Major Sharpe (Sean Bean) is teamed with Colonel Brand (Mark Strong), a British officer famous for leading a small band of soldiers operating far behind enemy lines. Wellington (Hugh Fraser) assigns them the task of blowing up a store of gunpowder vital to French General Calvet (Olivier Pierre). To do this, they need the expertise of explosives expert Major Pyecroft (Nigel Betts). Major General Ross (James Laurenson), Wellington's head of military intelligence, decides to go along to evaluate Calvet's intentions.
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Bim (1974)
, 1h40Directed by Hugh A. Robertson
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Rating69%
Bim/Bheem Singh, an Indian boy living in Trinidad, is sent to live with his aunt after his father, a trade union leader for sugar-cane workers, is shot to death during a wedding. At his new school, Bim is isolated and picked on by the black students because of his "coolie" (Indian) heritage. As tension builds during his very first day he is forced to stab one of the students as a means of defence to make it home alive. This incident gets Bim kicked out of school and his aunt's home and he is forced to live a life of violence and crime to survive. As Bim matures and becomes older, he moves from crime to crime, until involved by implication in a murder he flees back to his home place, the sugar cane belt. Approaching one of his father's old friends, he is able to take revenge on his father's killers and rise to prominence as a trade union representative for the Indian sugar-cane workers.
Melinda (1972)
, 1h49Directed by Hugh A. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee, Paul Stevens, Rockne Tarkington, Ross Hagen
Rating58%
Frankie J. Parker is a Los Angeles radio disc jockey. In his spare time, Frankie takes karate lessons at a school run by his friend Charles Atkins.
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Bim (1974)
, 1h40Directed by Hugh A. Robertson
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Roles Producer
Rating69%
Bim/Bheem Singh, an Indian boy living in Trinidad, is sent to live with his aunt after his father, a trade union leader for sugar-cane workers, is shot to death during a wedding. At his new school, Bim is isolated and picked on by the black students because of his "coolie" (Indian) heritage. As tension builds during his very first day he is forced to stab one of the students as a means of defence to make it home alive. This incident gets Bim kicked out of school and his aunt's home and he is forced to live a life of violence and crime to survive. As Bim matures and becomes older, he moves from crime to crime, until involved by implication in a murder he flees back to his home place, the sugar cane belt. Approaching one of his father's old friends, he is able to take revenge on his father's killers and rise to prominence as a trade union representative for the Indian sugar-cane workers.
Editor
Shaft (1971)
, 1h40Directed by Gordon Parks
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Christopher St. John, Charles Cioffi, Antonio Fargas, Lawrence Pressman
Roles Editor
Rating65%
John Shaft, a private detective, is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. Police Lt. Vic Androzzi meets Shaft and unsuccessfully tries to get information from him on the two gangsters. After Androzzi leaves, Shaft spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building. He commandeers the first gangster, forcing him into his office where the second gangster is waiting. After a quick fight, Shaft dodges one of them who goes out the window, while the other surrenders and reveals to him that Bumpy Jonas, the leader of a Harlem-based organized crime family, wanted Shaft brought uptown to Harlem for a meeting.
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
, 1h49Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Erotic thriller films, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, John McGiver
Roles Editor
Rating77%
As the film opens, Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a young Texan working as a dishwasher, dresses in new cowboy clothing, packs a suitcase, and quits his job. He heads to New York City hoping to succeed as a male prostitute for women. Initially unsuccessful, he succeeds in bedding a well-to-do middle-aged New Yorker (Sylvia Miles), but Joe ends up giving her money.
Andy (1965)
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Norman Alden, Warren Finnerty, Judith Lowry, Murvyn Vye, Ann Wedgeworth
Roles Editor
Rating76%
A mentally retarded man must deal with a harsh life in New York City.
Harvey Middleman, Fireman (1965)
, 1h16Directed by Ernest Pintoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Arlene Golonka, Hermione Gingold, Will Mackenzie, Charles Durning, Stanley Myron Handelman
Roles Editor
Rating54%
Harvey Middleman (Eugene Troobnick), a New York City fireman, lives happily in a New Jersey suburb with his wife (Arlene Golonka) and two small children. Harvey loves his life but after a fight with her over dinner one night he imagines himself rescuing a beautiful young girl from a fire. Just as he dreamt it he rescues a young model named Lois (Patricia Harty). Harvey steals a kiss from her as he resuscitates her and the two quickly fall in love. After secretly dating her several times, Harvey decides he must solve his moral dilemma by consulting his psychiatrist Mrs. Koogleman (Hermione Gingold). Mrs. Koogleman however is too preoccupied with her own relationship problems to help Harvey with his conundrum. Another fire breaks out in Lois's apartment, and this time one of Harvey's associates Dinny (Will Mackenzie) rescues Lois while Harvey saves a cat. Lois and Dinny quickly fall in love and Harvey is left to return to his wife.
Lilith (1964)
, 1h54Directed by Robert Rossen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Jessica Walter, Anne Meacham
Roles Associate Editor
Rating67%
Set in a private mental institution, Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland, the film tells of a trainee occupational therapist, a troubled ex-soldier named Vincent Bruce (Beatty), who becomes dangerously obsessed with seductive, artistic, schizophrenic patient Lilith Arthur (Seberg). Bruce makes progress helping Lilith emerge from seclusion and leave the institutional grounds for a day in the country, and accompanies her on other excursions in which she is alone with him. She attempts to seduce him, and eventually Bruce tells Lilith he is in love with her. Lilith also seduces an older female patient, and enchants a couple of young boys on one her outings. Bruce triggers the suicide of another patient (Fonda) out of jealousy over the patient's crush on Lilith. This brings up memories in Lilith of her brother's suicide, which she implies was due to an incestuous relationship which she initiated, and she goes on a destructive rampage in her room and winds up in a catatonic state. Bruce presents himself to his superiors for psychiatric help.
Something Wild (1961)
, 1h52Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Romance
Actors Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton, Martin Kosleck, Clifton James
Roles Assistant Editor
Rating66%
Mary Ann Robinson, a teenage girl attending college in New York City, is brutally raped while walking in a park.
Come Back, Africa (1959)
, 1h35Directed by Lionel Rogosin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Miriam Makeba
Roles Editor
Rating70%
Come Back, Africa comprises a storyline acted out by black South Africans from whose own experiences the film's events are drawn.
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A Thousand Clowns (1965)
, 1h58Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Philip Bruns
Roles Sound Editor
Rating72%
Unemployed television writer Murray Burns (Jason Robards) lives in a cluttered New York City studio apartment with his 12-year-old nephew, Nick (Barry Gordon). Murray has been unemployed for five months after quitting his previous job: writing jokes for a children's television show called Chuckles the Chipmunk. Nick, the illegitimate son of Murray's sister, was left with Murray seven years earlier.
Mickey One (1965)
, 1h33Directed by Arthur Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield, Franchot Tone, Jeff Corey, Kamatari Fujiwara
Roles Sound Effects Editor
Rating62%
After incurring the wrath of the Mafia, a stand-up comic (Warren Beatty) flees Detroit for Chicago, taking the name Mickey One. Eventually he returns to the stage, but is wary of becoming successful, afraid that he will attract too much attention. When he gets a booking at the upscale club Xanadu, he finds that his first rehearsal has become a special "audition" for an unseen man with a gruff voice. Paranoid that the mob has found him, Mickey runs away. He decides to find out who "owns" him and square himself with the mob, but he doesn't know what he did to anger them or what his debt is. Searching for a mobster who will talk to him, he gets beaten up by a bunch of nightclub doormen. Mickey finally concludes that it's impossible to get away and be safe, so he pulls himself together and does his act anyway.
The Cool World (1963)
, 2h5Directed by Shirley Clarke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Crime
Actors Antonio Fargas, Carl Lee, Clarence Williams III, Gloria Foster, Richard Ward, Val Bisoglio
Roles Sound Editor
Rating64%
Un regard sur les horreurs du ghetto de Harlem, touché par la drogue, la violence, et la misère, ainsi que par le désespoir dû à la ségrégation raciale de la société américaine.
The Miracle Worker (1962)
, 1h46Directed by Arthur Penn, Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about education, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, La cécité
Actors Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, John Bliss
Roles Sound Effects Editor
Rating80%
Les parents d'une fillette devenue aveugle et sourde alors qu'elle était encore bébé, font appel à une institutrice spécialisée, elle-même mal-voyante.