Tom Priestley Dies: ‘Deliverance’ Film Editor, Son Of ‘An Inspector Calls’ Playwright J.B. Priestley Was 91
deadline.comTom Priestley, the son of British playwright and novelist J.B. Priestley who established his own show business career as an Oscar-nominated film editor on such major projects as John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972), Blake Edwards’ The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and Roman Polanski‘s Tess (1979), died December 25.
He was 91. His death was only later announced by the J.B. Priestley Society. “It with the utmost sadness we announce the death of out President Tom Priestley,” the J.B.
Priestley Society said in a statement. “Tom who was J. B. Priestley’s only son became one of this country’s finest film editors.
Perhaps his most famous film was Deliverance for which he was Oscar Nominated. He was a most charming man.” Born Tom Holland Priestley on April 22, 1932, in London, he was educated at Bryanston School and King’s College, Cambridge, before beginning his professional career at Shepperton Studios in various capacities, including as an assistant sound editor.
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