John Bloom(II)

Londoner John Bloom was born on September 12th 1935, the younger brother of the actress Claire Bloom. He began his film career as a script reader in the story department at Pinewood studios but became interested in film editing, starting out as assistant to John Trumper on Heart of a Child (1958). His big break came with the film "The Impersonator (1961)" with his first solo credit as editor and throughout the 60s and 70s he worked on a number of British films, gaining an Oscar for "Gandhi (1982)". However since the mid-1980s he has worked chiefly in America, including three collaborations with director Mike Nichols, the cinema films "Closer (2004)" and "Charlie Wilson's War (2007)" and "Wit (2001)", for which he took an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.