Ronald Sinclair

Editor

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Also Known As

Ra Hould

Birth Place

New Zealand

Born

January 21, 1924

Cause of Death

Respiratory Failure

Biography

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Juvenile player turned film editor who retained his celebrity in his native New Zealand long after the end of his Hollywood acting career. Sinclair's feature credits include William Wellman's "The Light That Failed," "Tower of London" (both 1939), Alexander Korda's "That Hamilton Woman" (1941) and Raoul Walsh's "Desperate Journey" (1942). He also appeared in a series of children's advent...

Filmography

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The Cayman Triangle (1977)

Desperate Journey (1942)

Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Out West with the Peppers (1940)

The Light That Failed (1940)

The Earl of Chicago (1940)

Gerald Kilmount

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That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) By The Queen's Own Hand

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) What Mood Is This?

Family & Companions

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Carol Sinclair

Wife

Survived him.

Biography

Juvenile player turned film editor who retained his celebrity in his native New Zealand long after the end of his Hollywood acting career. Sinclair's feature credits include William Wellman's "The Light That Failed," "Tower of London" (both 1939), Alexander Korda's "That Hamilton Woman" (1941) and Raoul Walsh's "Desperate Journey" (1942). He also appeared in a series of children's adventure films featuring the Five Little Peppers (1939-40)

In 1955 Sinclair began a long and fruitful collaboration with producer-director Roger Corman which led to a busy career in low-budget independent filmmaking. Sinclair edited Corman's directorial debut, "Five Guns West" (1955), and went on to work on at least a dozen of his films including "Machine Gun Kelly" (1958), "The Intruder" (1962), "The Premature Burial" (1962), "The Raven" (1963) and "The Trip" (1967). He also edited a number of films by another low-rent auteur with big ideas, Bert I. Gordon: "The Amazing Colossal Man," "Invasion of the Saucer Men" (both 1957), "War of the Colossal Beast," "Attack of the Puppet People," and "The Spider" (all 1958).

This was guerrilla filmmaking for the drive-in teen market. The product was high concept, low-budget, and usually shot in a couple of weeks. A substantial portion of the footage shot for these economical marvels was doubtlessly saved through Sinclair's adept editing. He made a brief return to acting in "The Big Catch" (1969), a British children's film.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Cayman Triangle (1977)

Desperate Journey (1942)

Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Out West with the Peppers (1940)

The Light That Failed (1940)

The Earl of Chicago (1940)

Gerald Kilmount

Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)

Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)

Tower of London (1939)

Boy King Edward

They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

J. Douglas Williamson

A Christmas Carol (1938)

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Roger Calverton

Boots and Saddles (1937)

Edward, Earl of Granville, also known as Spud

A Doctor's Diary (1937)

Michael Fielding

Dangerous Holiday (1937)

Beloved Enemy (1936)

Jerry [O'Brien]

Producer (Feature Film)

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)

The Haunted Palace (1963)

Associate Producer

Submarine Seahawk (1959)

Associate Producer

Editing (Feature Film)

The Sweet Creek County War (1978)

Deathdream (1972)

How Do I Love Thee? (1970)

The Maltese Bippy (1969)

How To Commit Marriage (1969)

The Trip (1967)

Thunder Alley (1967)

The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)

Sergeant Deadhead (1965)

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)

The Bounty Killer (1965)

The Secret Invasion (1964)

The Raven (1963)

The Young Racers (1963)

The Haunted Palace (1963)

The Intruder (1962)

Tower of London (1962)

Premature Burial (1962)

Submarine Seahawk (1959)

Roadracers (1959)

Supervising Film Editor

Tank Commando (1959)

Supervising Film Editor

Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

Editing Supervisor

Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1958)

The Spider (1958)

Editing Supervisor

War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

Editing Supervisor

Hot Rod Gang (1958)

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)

Editing Supervisor

Dragstrip Girl (1957)

Voodoo Woman (1957)

Flesh and the Spur (1956)

Day the World Ended (1956)

Girls in Prison (1956)

Swamp Women (1956)

The Oklahoma Woman (1956)

Runaway Daughters (1956)

The She-Creature (1956)

Apache Woman (1955)

Five Guns West (1955)

The Long Wait (1954)

The Moon Is Blue (1953)

Music (Feature Film)

Top Banana (1954)

Sound (Feature Film)

Radio Flyer (1992)

Die Hard 2 (1990)

Predator 2 (1990)

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

Die Hard (1988)

Action Jackson (1988)

Child's Play (1988)

Spaceballs (1987)

Commando (1985)

Editing (Special)

15 and Getting Straight (1989)

The Kid who Wouldn't Quit/Brad Silverman Story (1987)

Life Events

1955

Edited "Five Guns West", Roger Corman's directorial debut; first of many collaborations with producer-director Corman

Videos

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) By The Queen's Own Hand At odds with history but smartly dressed by designer Rene Hubert, Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh) visits her old friend now Admiral Nelson (Laurence Olivier) aboard the Vanguard, shocked at his condition but bearing good news of her influence with the queen of Naples, in Alexander Korda's That Hamilton Woman, 1941.

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) What Mood Is This? Now-admiral Nelson (Laurence Olivier), bored with his hero’s welcome in Naples is now evading celebrations, indulging his interest in the title character (Vivien Leigh, Mrs. Olivier, as Emma, Lady Hamilton, wife of the British ambassador), in a tavern when his junior officers (Ronald Sinclair as Josiah) appear, Alexander Korda directing from the original screenplay by Walter Reisch and R.C. Sherriff, in That Hamilton Woman, 1941.

Desperate Journey (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Half American, Half Jersey City Nazi Major Baumeister (Raymond Massey) is telling the crew of the downed RAF bomber (Errol Flynn, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Hale, Ronald Sinclair) they have no prospects, but he has an idea to flip American Johnny (Ronald Reagan), who himself turns the tables, directed by Raoul Walsh, in a famous bit from Desperate Journey, 1942.

Desperate Journey (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Are Englishmen? Still in their stolen Nazi uniforms, after another clever sabotage in Berlin, pilot Terry (Errol Flynn) and crew (Ronald Reagan, Arthur Kennedy) need help for wounded Hollis (Ronald Sinclair), and get lucky meeting sympathizer Nancy Coleman (as Kaethe) and her doctor uncle (Albert Basserman) in Desperate Journey, 1942.

Desperate Journey (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Yankees Always Win After a bit in which the Resistance in Poland pulls off a sabotage and sends a carrier pigeon to England, we meet Allied members of an RAF bomber crew, Arthur Kennedy, Patrick O’Moore, Ronald Reagan as Johnny, Errol Flynn as Terry, Ronald Sinclair as Hollis, Alan Hale as Edwards, Raoul Walsh directing, in Desperate Journey, 1942.

Desperate Journey (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Are We Hit Bad? Raoul Walsh directs, intense spectacle (special effects credited to Nathan Levinson and Byron Haskin for Warner Bros.) as the England based crew of the “D-For-Danny” RAF B-17 (Errol Flynn piloting, Ronald Reagan bombing, Arthur Kennedy navigating, with Alan Hale and Ronald Sinclair) hit their target in Germany, in Desperate Journey, 1942.

Christmas Carol, A (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Old Fezziwig Spirit of Christmas Past (flaxen Ann Rutherford) conducts Scrooge (Reginald Owen) to see his young self (Ronald Sinclair) and Jack (Harold Henson) with Fezziwig (Forester Harvey) in A Christmas Carol, 1938.

Trip, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Tripping He's only on a walk with his friend John (Bruce Dern) but Paul (Peter Fonda) imagines a forest, a desert, a cave and a haunted house as the drugs kick in, in The Trip, 1967.

Moon is Blue, The - (Original Trailer) Two womanizers (William Holden, David Niven) fall for a woman determined to keep her virginity in The Moon is Blue (1953).

Desperate Journey -- (Textless Trailer) Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan are behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Poland in the slam-bang adventure Desperate Journey (1942).

Trip, The - (Original Trailer) A commercial director (Peter Fonda) tries to get over a painful divorce with a dose of L.S.D. in Roger Corman's The Trip (1967).

They Made Me a Criminal - (Original Trailer) A young boxer (John Garfield) goes on the run when he's accused of murdering a reporter in They Made Me a Criminal (1939).

Earl Of Chicago, The - (Original Trailer) A gangster, Silky Kilmont (Robert Montgomery), inherits a British title and becomes The Earl of Chicago (1939).

Maltese Bippy, The - (Original Trailer) Laugh-In's Dan Rowan and Dick Martin star in The Maltese Bippy (1969), a haunted house comedy co-starring Julie Newmar.

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs - (Original Trailer) The foppish mad scientist (Vincent Price) plots a scheme to take over the world by killing off the military leaders of every country in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966).

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine - (Original Trailer) Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) sends beautiful female robots to ensnare the world's richest men in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965).

Christmas Carol, A (1938) - (Original Trailer) The 1938 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous Yuletide story, A Christmas Carol, starring Reginald Owen.

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry - (Original Trailer) When young jockey Mickey Rooney is banned from racing, Judy Garland rides to the rescue in their first screen pairing, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937).

Family

Richard Sinclair

Son

Survived him.

Companions

Carol Sinclair

Wife

Survived him.

Bibliography

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