Gordon Hales

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{{Infobox person

| name = Gordon Hales

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| birth_date = 1916

| birth_place = Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

| death_date = {{death year and age|1994|1916}}

| death_place = London, England, UK

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| occupation = Film editor
Film director

| yearsactive = 1938–1971

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Gordon Hales (1916–1994) was a British film editor who worked on more than thirty films, including several documentaries. Early in his career Hales was employed by the GPO Film Unit, which was then taken over by the Ministry of Information during the Second World War.Drazin p.181 During the late 1940s he worked at Gainsborough Pictures. In 1963 he directed the film noir Return to Sender.Spicer p.446