Londoner John Bloom was born on September 12th 1935, the younger
brother of the actress
Claire Bloom. He began his film career as a
script reader in the story department at Pinewood studios but became
interested in film editing, starting out as assistant to
John Trumper on
Heart of a Child (1958). His big break came with the film "
The Impersonator (1961)" with his first solo credit as editor and
throughout the 60s and 70s he worked on a number of British films,
gaining an Oscar for "
Gandhi (1982)". However since the mid-1980s he
has worked chiefly in America, including three collaborations with
director
Mike Nichols, the cinema films "
Closer (2004)" and "
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)" and "
Wit (2001)", for which he took an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.