Dick Allen (film editor)

Dick Allen (21 March 1944 – 6 February 2007) was a film editor who worked both as a freelancer and for the BBC.

He attended Ardingly College in West Sussex, before taking an apprenticeship at aeronautical manufacturer Vickers at their base in Brooklands near Weybridge.

He worked on some of the corporations major documentary series, such as David Attenborough's The Tribal Eye,[2] as well as dramas and comedies of the 1970s and 1980s.

[1] He received two BAFTA awards, the first in 1986 for his work on Hotel du Lac, and then again in 1991 for Portrait of a Marriage.

He left the BBC in the same year but continued to work until the birth of his son in 1994 when he gave up editing to be a father.