Adam Dawson

'''Adam Dawson(13 March 1913–) is a retired film editor.

Adam Alexander Dawson was born at 33 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh son of Alexander Bashall Dawson and Aileen Twentyman Smithers. Among his films are “Knight Without Armour” (1937), “The Conquest of the Air” (1940), “The Glass Mountain” (1949), the Dr Who episodes Spear Head from Space (1970), “A Place in the Country” (1967), The World of Coppard” (1968), “The World His Challenge” (1967), “The Highland Jaunt” (1968).

Adam Dawson is a descendant of both the Dawson whisky family of St Magdalenes, Linlithgow and the Gillon whisky family of Leith.

Adam was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Stowe School, and The Queen’s College Oxford where he was President of the Oxford University Film Society. He joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment and from 1942 to 1946 he edited and produced many training films for the Army while in India. He subsequently worked for Nettlefold Studios and for the BBC as a Film Editor. While working for the BBC he edited a number of productions, including Z-cars, Dr Who and The Benny Hill Show, although he refused to have his name in the credits of the latter.

He was married three times. His first marriage in 1942 to Nora Francisca Blackburne ended in a divorce in 1946 following Nora’s affair with Jack Lee, Film Director whom she subsequently married. In December 1946 he married Elizabeth Grice and in 1983 married Pamela Gwyneth Ward (nee Owen-Williams).