Helga Cranston
{{short description|German film editor}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Helga Cranston
| birth_name = Helga May
| birth_date = 6 May 1921
| birth_place = Darmstadt, Germany
| death_date = {{death-date and age|1 March 2013|6 May 1921}}
| death_place = Tel Aviv, Israel
| occupation = Film editor
| years_active = 1940sā1960s
| spouse = Maurice Cranston
Mel Keller
}}
Helga Cranston (born Helga May, 6 May 1921 ā 1 March 2013) was a German film editor who worked in the British and Israeli film industries from the 1940s through the 1960s.{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/.premium-helga-keller-leading-film-editor-dies-1.5232541|title=Helga Keller, Leading Israeli Film Editor and Educator, Dies|last=Anderman|first=Nirit|date=March 5, 2013|work=Haaretz|access-date=April 5, 2019|language=en}}
Biography
Helga was born in Germany to Jewish parents; she and her family emigrated to England to escape the Nazis when she was 18. Still in her teens, she married the philosopher Maurice Cranston. She edited films for directors like Laurence Olivier and Otto Preminger, then moved to Israel in the 1950s, where she continued her career as an editor and also worked in academia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/tales-film-editor-making-olivier-hamlet|title=Tales of a film editor: the making of Olivier's Hamlet|website=British Film Institute|language=en|access-date=April 5, 2019}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HULSAQAAQBAJ&q=%22helga+cranston%22+editor&pg=PA244|title=Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance|last1=McMullan|first1=Gordon|last2=Orlin|first2=Lena Cowen|last3=Vaughan|first3=Virginia Mason|date=December 2, 2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781472539380|language=en}}
Selected filmography
- Sands of Beersheba (1964)
- The Simhon Family (1964)
- Joseph the Dreamer (1962)
- They Were Ten (1961)
- Model for Murder (1959)
- Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
- Saint Joan (1957)
- Richard III (1955)
- The Diamond Wizard (1954)
- The Final Test (1953)
- Honeymoon Deferred (1951)
- Madness of the Heart (1949)
- It's Hard to Be Good (1948)
- Daybreak (1948)
- Hamlet (1948)
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Category:German women film editors
Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
Category:Mass media people from Darmstadt
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