Alfred Roome

Alfred Wallace Roome (22 December 1908 – 19 November 1997) was an English film editor and occasional director.

He went on to edit mostly comedies over the next forty years including many of the Aldwych Farces films, and Will Hay films such as Boys Will Be Boys.

In the latter years of his career he edited the Carry On series of films alongside the director, Gerald Thomas.

The couple had two children, a daughter Deirdre, and a son, Christopher Wallace (1937–1987) who was killed in the King's Cross tube station fire of 1987 at age 50.

[5] Alfred Roome died on 19 November 1997, in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire at the age of 88.