About Noreen Ackland
Lived 1921 – 2013 (aged 91–92). Noreen Ackland was a film editor.
Noreen Ackland (1921 – 15 April 2013) was a British film editor active primarily in the 1960s. She was married to film editor Richard Best. She got her start during World War II when she joined the editing room at the Army Kinematograph Unit. She worked as an assistant to Reginald Mills early on before getting her first full editor credit on the thriller Peeping Tom.
Selected filmography Peeping Tom (1960) The Queen's Guards (1961) The Girl on the Boat (1962) The Password Is Courage (1962) Never Put It in Writing (1964) The Secret of My Success (1965) Danny the Dragon (1967) Some Kind of Hero (1972)
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British film editor
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Noreen Ackland was born in 1921 in Oakley Green.
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Noreen Ackland died on 15 April 2013 in Wokingham.
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