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created on: 26/03/2026
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Peter Tanner (13 September 1914, Tilford, Surrey, England - 10 December 2002, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England (aged 88)) was a British film editor.
After beginning his career editing quota quickies in the 1930s, he then worked on documentaries during the Second World War. He briefly worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1945, editing footage of the liberated concentration camps.

Tanner became a writer on jazz in earnest, and featured in Rex Harris's book
Jazz (1952) as well as writing regularly for Jazz Journal and the
now-defunct Jazz Monthly, and contributing to such specialist magazines as
Brian Rust's Needletime.

Having edited several notable documentaries, including Jill Craigie's Out of
Chaos (1944) and Ralph Keene's Power on the Land (1947), Tanner received an
invitation from the distinguished producer Michael Balcon to edit at Ealing
Studios.
He was later employed by Ealing Studios, working on films such as Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Blue Lamp.
During the mid-1960s he edited a number of episodes of The Avengers television series.
He had a lengthy career lasting into the late 1990s.
He edited his last film, the Lew Grade production Something to Believe, in
1998 at the age of 83.

He married Jean Beaver in 1953. The copuple had two sons. The marriage was dissolved in 1971.
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