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Alfred Roome

{{Short description|British film editor and director (1908–1997)}}

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| name = Alfred Roome

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| birth_name = Alfred Wallace Roome

| birth_date = 22 December 1908

| birth_place = London

| death_date = {{death date and age|1997|11|19|1908|12|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire

| nationality = English

| other_names = Alfie Roome
A. W. Room{{cite web|author1=Tony Sloman|title=Obituary: Alfred Roome|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-alfred-roome-1288277.html|website=independent.co.uk|publisher=The Independent|accessdate=19 August 2016|date=12 December 1997}}

| occupation = Film editor
Film director

| years active = 1932–1975

| spouse = {{marriage|Janice Adair|1929|1996|end=died}}

| children = 2

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Alfred Wallace Roome (22 December 1908 – 19 November 1997) was an English film editor and occasional director.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740284/|title=Alfred Roome|website=IMDb}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20090113202300/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/16231 BFI.org]

Biography

Born in London, in 1908, he first worked in the film industry as a film editor on the 1932 British comedy film Thark. 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.

He directed crime film My Brother's Keeper (1948) and comedy film It's Not Cricket (1949).

In the latter years of his career he edited the Carry On series of films alongside the director, Gerald Thomas. He retired in 1975 after editing Carry On Behind.

Personal life and death

Roome married the actress Janice Adair on 20 February 1936;{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000378/19360220/137/0004|title=Wedding of Local Film Artist|date=20 February 1936|work=Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail|access-date=25 November 2018|issue=18032|page=4|url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} they remained married until her death in 1996. 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.{{cite web |title=Christopher Wallace Roome |url=https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/christopher-wallace-roome |website=www.londonremembers.com}} Alfred Roome died on 19 November 1997, in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire at the age of 88.

His granddaughter Olivia works in the film industry.

Selected filmography

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References

External links

  • [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-alfred-roome-1288277.html Obituary in The Independent]

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Category:1908 births

Category:1997 deaths

Category:English film directors

Category:English film editors

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