Lesley Walker

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title: "Lesley Walker" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1945-births", "2025-deaths", "british-film-editors", "british-women-film-editors"] description: "British film and television editor (1945–2025)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Walker" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary British film and television editor (1945–2025) ::

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notable_works	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Mamma Mia!
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Lesley Walker (July 1945 – 2 December 2025) was a British film and television editor with more than 30 feature film credits. She came into prominence in the 1980s, when she "developed a fast and snappy editing style in the decade, with A Letter to Brezhnev (1985), Mona Lisa (1986), Cry Freedom (1987), and Shirley Valentine (1989)." She worked extensively with directors Terry Gilliam and Richard Attenborough.

Walker's work was honoured by nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing (Mona Lisa (1986) and Cry Freedom (1987)), for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing (Tideland (2005)), and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award (Mamma Mia! (2008)).

Walker died on 2 December 2025, at the age of 80.

Feature films as editor

The director is indicated in parentheses.

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Strick-1977)
• The Tempest (Jarman-1979)
• Eagle's Wing (Harvey-1979)
• Richard's Things (Harvey-1980)
• Letter to Brezhnev (Bernard-1985)
• Mona Lisa (Jordan-1986)
• Winter Flight (Battersby-1986)
• Cry Freedom (Attenborough-1987)
• Buster (Green-1988)
• Shirley Valentine (Gilbert-1989)
• Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
• The Fisher King (Gilliam-1991)
• Waterland (Gyllenhaal-1992)
• Shadowlands (Attenborough-1993)
• Born Yesterday (Mandoki-1993)
• Jack and Sarah (Sullivan-1995)
• Emma (McGrath-1996)
• In Love and War (Attenborough-1996)
• Mary Reilly (Frears-1996)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam-1998)
• Grey Owl (Attenborough-1999)
• The Body (McCord-2001; with Alain Jakubowicz)
• Nicholas Nickleby (McGrath-2002)
• All or Nothing (Leigh-2002)
• The Sleeping Dictionary (Jenkin-2003)
• The Brothers Grimm (Gilliam-2005)
• Tideland (Gilliam-2005)
• Closing the Ring (Attenborough-2007)
• Mamma Mia! (Lloyd-2008)
• Will (Perry-2011)
• I Am Nasrine (Gharavi-2012; supervising editor with Lucia Zucchetti)
• Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (Rowley-2015)
• The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Gilliam-2018)
• Military Wives (Cattaneo-2019)

References

References

1. Harper, Sue. (2000). "Women in British Cinema". Continuum International.
2. Marks, Peter. (2009). "Terry Gilliam". [[Manchester University Press]].
3. Perkins, Roy. (2004). "British film editors: the heart of the movie". [[British Film Institute]].
4. (9 December 2025). "Lesley Walker, ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘Mamma Mia!’ Film Editor, Dies at 80". Variety.

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