| David Bretherton | |
| Birth Name: | David L. Bretherton |
| Birth Date: | 29 February 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Awards: | ACE Eddie 1972 Cabaret ACE Career Achievement 1995 |
David L. 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 The Bottom of the Bottle in 1956.[1] 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 Best 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:
Cabaret was listed as the 30th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.[2]
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Super Cops | Gordon Parks | Consulting editor | |
| 1980 | The Big Red One | Samuel Fuller | Supervising editor | |
| Caddyshack | Harold Ramis | |||
| The Formula | John G. Avildsen | Second collaboration with John G. Avildsen |
| Year | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | The Living Swamp | David DaLie | |
| 1956 | The Dark Wave | Jean Negulesco |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1959−60 | Five Fingers | 2 episodes |
| 1961 | Follow the Sun | |
| 1962−63 | Empire |