Biographical Overview & Key Facts

Subject:

Anne V. Coates

Role / Field:

Acclaimed British film editor, celebrated for David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia.

Born:

1925-12-12

Died:

2018-05-08

Century / Era:

1925s Historical Era

Database Source:

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Origins & Early Life

Anne Voase Coates (12 December 1925 – 8 May 2018) was an English film editor with a more than 60-year-long career. She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia (1962), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. She was also Oscar-nominated for Becket (1963), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998). In 2007, she became a BAFTA Fellow.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

Coates was born in Reigate, Surrey, England, the daughter of Kathleen Voase (née Rank) and Major Laurence Calvert Coates. Her first passion was horses. As a girl, she thought she might become a race-horse trainer. Coates attended the Reigate village school called the Micklefield School. She then attended High Trees School in Horley (Surrey).

Enduring Legacy & Impact

Her final school was Bartrum Gables in Broadstairs (Kent). Before becoming a film editor, she worked as a nurse at Sir Archibald McIndoe's pioneering plastic surgery hospital in East Grinstead, England. Coates became interested in cinema after seeing Wuthering Heights (1939) directed by William Wyler. She decided to pursue film directing and started working as an assistant at a production...

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