Lovejoy, Ray

   Film editor Ray Lovejoy, an Academy Award nominee in 1987 for his work on Aliens, was an assistant editor in the 1960s on such films as David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1961) and STANLEY KUBRICK’s DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964). Lovejoy stepped up to the position of film editor for the first time on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), and he worked with Stanley Kubrick for the third and last time as film editor on THE SHINING (1980). According to VINCENT LOBRUTTO, Stanley Kubrick oversaw the entire editing process, and in fact the director selected every shot, determining exactly where it would begin and end.

   Ray Lovejoy’s other credits include: writer-director of Radio One on the Road, a documentary for the BBC and GTO Films; director of Caterina Valenti in Concert; supervising film editor on filmed concert performances by Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, and others; and editorial consultant on Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981). Lovejoy has edited at least five films directed by Peter Yates, including The Dresser (1983), Eleni (1985), Suspect (1987), and The House on Carroll Street (1988). He has continued to work steadily as a film editor on major films, including Batman (1989), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), Lost in Space (1998), and the Chevy Chase comedy, Vacuums, scheduled for a 2002 release.

   References

   ■ “Ray Lovejoy,” Internet Movie Database, www.imdb.com;

   ■ press book for Aliens, ca. 1986;

   ■ “Ray Lovejoy: Biography,” press book for Suspect, ca. 1988.