Helene Turner

{{short description|American film editor}}

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Helene Turner (sometimes credited as Helen Turner) was an American film editor who worked in the industry for over 30 years, beginning during the silent era.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EF2xmI5pEx8C&dq=%22helene+turner%22+paramount&pg=PA199|title=Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff|last=Koszarski|first=Richard|date=2008-08-27|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813545523|language=en}}

For part of her career, she worked as a cutter at Florida's Sun Haven Studios.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/315156062/?terms=%22helene+turner%22+cutter|title=13 Oct 1933, 7 - Tampa Bay Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}} There was also a period where she was employed by Paramount.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/332627534/?terms=%22helene+turner%22|title=25 Jun 1933, 4 - The Tampa Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bg56DQAAQBAJ&dq=%22helene+turner%22+paramount&pg=PT402|title=The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender|last1=Hole|first1=Kristin Lené|last2=Jelača|first2=Dijana|last3=Kaplan|first3=E. Ann|last4=Petro|first4=Patrice|date=2016-11-10|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317408048|language=en}} She received a writing credit on the 1958 film noir Hong Kong Affair. She was noted for cutting a number of serials for Republic.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ForgottenHorrorsTheDefinitiveEditionByGeorgeETurnerAndMichaelHPriceStarbrite|title=Forgotten Horrors - The Definitive Edition by George E. Turner and Michael H. Price (Starbrite)|last=Starbrite|date=1999}}