Gerry Hambling (born 1926) is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor. Hambling's editing of three films, The Commitments (1991), Mississippi Burning (1988), and Midnight Express (1978), has been honored by BAFTA Awards for Best Editing.

In 1976, Hambling began a notable collaboration with the director Alan Parker that has extended over nearly all of Parker's films. The three BAFTA awards noted above were all for films directed by Parker. Chris Routledge has described their collaboration as follows:^[1][2]

The collaboration with Parker has ranged widely, from the musical Bugsy Malone, through the partly animated Pink Floyd The Wall, to the grim Angel Heart and the strange story of The Road to Welville. They have been particularly successful with musicals, Hambling's talent for creating the illusion of movement proving useful where musical performances appear in films such as The Commitments, which Lawrence O'Toole called "a great swim for the eyeballs." Perhaps because of their experience in advertising, Parker's slick and striking images combine well with Hambling's intuitive sense of pace and rhythm, for example in the otherwise problematic Fame, and in the much trailed, but poorly received Evita.

In addition to the three BAFTA Awards, Hambling has been nominated for the BAFTA award for three additional films (Fame, Another Country, and Evita). Six films edited by Hambling were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing (Midnight Express, Fame, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, In the Name of the Father, and Evita). Hambling has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.^[3] Mississippi Burning won the ACE Eddie Award, and in 1998 Hambling was honored by the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.

Filmography[link]

The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.

• 1956 Dry Rot (Elvey)
• 1958 The Whole Truth (Guillermin)
• 1960 The Bulldog Breed (Asher); The Poacher's Daughter (Sally's Irish Rogue) (Pollock)
• 1961 The Kitchen (Hill)
• 1962 She'll Have to Go (Maid for Murder) (Asher)
• 1963 A Stitch in Time (Asher)
• 1965 The Early Bird (Asher); The Intelligence Men (Asher)
• 1966 Press for Time (Asher); That Riviera Touch (Owen)
• 1967 The Magnificent Two (Owen)
• 1968 The Adding Machine (Epstein)
• 1976 Bugsy Malone (Parker)
• 1978 Midnight Express (Parker)
• 1980 Fame (Parker)
• 1981 Heartaches (Shebib)
• 1982 Pink Floyd The Wall (Parker); Shoot the Moon (Parker)
• 1984 Another Country (Kanievska); Birdy (Parker)
• 1985 Invitation to the Wedding (Brooks)
• 1986 Absolute Beginners (Temple)
• 1987 Angel Heart (Parker); Leonard Part 6 (Weiland)
• 1988 Mississippi Burning (Parker)
• 1990 Come See the Paradise (Parker)
• 1991 The Commitments (Parker)
• 1992 City of Joy (La Cité de la joie) (Joffé)
• 1993 In the Name of the Father (Sheridan)
• 1994 The Road to Wellville (Parker)
• 1996 Evita (Parker); White Squall (Scott)
• 1997 The Boxer (Sheridan)
• 1998 Talk of Angels (Hamm)
• 1999 Angela's Ashes (Parker)
• 2000 Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War (Sharp)
• 2003 The Life of David Gale (Parker)

See also[link]

• List of film director and editor collaborations

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gerry Hambling at the Internet Movie Database

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Sir Alan Parker CBE
Alan Parker, Warsaw, Poland, 15th October 2005
Born	(1944-02-14) 14 February 1944 (age 68) Islington, London, England
Education	Dame Alice Owen's School
Occupation	Film director Film producer Writer Actor
Television	Many commercials

Sir Alan William Parker, CBE (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.

Life and career[link]

Parker was born into a working class family in Islington, North London, the son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter.^[1] He attended Dame Alice Owen's School. Parker started out as a copywriter for advertising agencies in the 1960s and 1970s and later began to write his own television commercial scripts. His most celebrated and enduring advertising work was when he worked for famed London agency Collett Dickenson Pearce where he directed many award winning commercials, including the famous Cinzano vermouth advertisement, starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, shown in the UK.

His film career began through his association with producer David Puttnam, now Lord Puttnam, when he wrote the screenplay for the feature Melody (1971). Puttnam would later produce a number of Parker's films including Midnight Express (1978). This was a highly controversial film set in a Turkish prison that was lauded by critics and ended up earning a number of Oscar nominations, including Best Director for Parker. He was later nominated for Best Director with Mississippi Burning (1988).

Parker and Puttnam collaborated in a (1979) sixty second 'Heineken' television commercial for the U.K. which was ground breaking as it used one hundred actors in an elaborate galley slave film set.

Parker has directed musical films including Bugsy Malone (1976), Fame (1980), Pink Floyd-The Wall (1982), The Commitments (1991) and Evita (1996).

He was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 2005 of which his long time associate Lord Puttnam is chancellor. Parker is an Arsenal fan and attends their home games.^[2]

Filmography[link]

Bibliography[link]

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• The Sucker's Kiss (2003). A historical fiction novel about a pickpocket in 1900s (decade) San Francisco, California
• No Hard Feelings (1973) shown on BBC TV. First in a series ("Stories of the Blitz") about World War II London Blitz. The series was never made but the 1975 film The Evacuees came out of this idea.

See also[link]

• Midnight Express (book)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Alan Parker at the Internet Movie Database

David Gale
Born	December, 1921 New York City, New York
Died	March 7, 2008 Berkeley, California
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics, economics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley, 1966–2008 Brown University, 1950–65 Rand Corporation, 1957–58 Princeton University 1949–50
Alma mater	Princeton University University of Michigan Swarthmore College
Doctoral advisor	Albert W. Tucker
Known for	Gale Transform linear programming convex analysis Chomp Bridg-It Gale–Shapley algorithm Ramsey problem
Notable awards	John von Neumann Theory Prize Pirelli Internetional Award

David Gale (December 13, 1921 – March 7, 2008) was a distinguished American mathematician and economist. He was a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with departments of Mathematics, Economics, and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis.

Gale earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Princeton University in 1949. He taught at Brown University from 1950 to 1965 and then joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gale lived in Berkeley, CA and Paris, France with his partner Sandra Gilbert, renowned feminist literary scholar and poet. He has three daughters and two grandsons.

Contribution[link]

Gale's contributions to mathematical economics include an early proof of the existence of competitive equilibrium, his solution of the n-dimensional Ramsey problem, in the theory of optimal economic growth.

Gale and Stewart initiated the study of infinite games with perfect information. This work led to fundamental contributions to mathematical logic.

Gale is the inventor of the game of Bridg-It (also known as "Game of Gale") and Chomp.

Gale played a fundamental role in the development of the theory of linear programming and linear inequalities. His classic 1960 book The Theory of Linear Economic Models continues to be a standard reference for this area.

The Gale Transform is an involution on sets of points in projective space. The concept is important in optimization, coding theory, and algebraic geometry.

Gale's paper with Lloyd Shapley on the stable marriage problem provides the first formal statement and proof of a problem that has far-reaching implications in many matching markets and is currently being applied in New York and Boston public school systems in assigning students to schools.^[1]

Gale wrote a Mathematical Entertainments column for the Mathematical Intelligencer from 1991 through 1997. The book Tracking the Automatic Ant collects these columns.

In 2004 Gale developed MathSite, a pedagogic website that uses interactive exhibits to illustrate important mathematical ideas. MathSite won the 2007 Pirelli Internetional Award for Science Communication in Mathematics.

Awards and honors[link]

• Procter Fellow, Princeton University, 1948
• Fulbright Research Fellowship, 1953–54
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1962–63, 1981
• Fellow, Econometric Society, 1965
• Miller Professor, 1971–72
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1975–76
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978
• Lester Ford Prize, 1979–80
• John von Neumann Theory Prize, 1980
• Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1983
• Pirelli Internetional Award Science Communication of Mathematics, 2007

Selected publications[link]

• Infinite games with perfect information (with F.M. Stewart). Annals of Mathematics 28 (1953), pp. 245–266.
• The law of supply and demand. Mathematica Scandinavica 3 (1955), pp. 33–44.
• Neighboring vertices on a convex polyhedron, in “Linear Inequalities and Related Systems” (H.W. Kuhn and A.W. Tucker, eds.), Annals of Math. Studies 38, 255–263, Princeton Univ. Press, 1956.
• The theory of linear economic models. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960.
• College admissions and the stability of marriage (with L.S. Shapley). American Mathematical Monthly 69 (1962), pp. 9–15.
• A note on global instability of competitive equilibrium. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 10 (1963), pp. 81–87.
• The Jacobian matrix and global univalence of mappings (with H. Nikaido). Mathematische Annalen 2 (1965), pp. 81–93.
• On optimal development in a multi-sector economy. The Review of Economic Studies 34 (1967), pp. 1–18.
• Pure exchange equilibrium of dynamic economic models. Journal of Economic Theory 6 (1973), pp. 12–26.
• A curious nim-type game. American Mathematical Monthly 81(1974), pp. 876–879.
• The game of Hex and the Brouwer fixed-point theorem. American Mathematical Monthly 86(1979), pp. 818–827.
• The strategy structure of two-sided matching markets (with G. Demange). Econometrica 53, no. 4 (1985), pp. 873–888.
• Tracking the automatic ant. And other mathematical explorations. A collection of Mathematical Entertainments columns from The Mathematical Intelligencer. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998, pp. xii + 241.

See also[link]

• Gale evenness condition

Notes[link]

• Citation of von Neumann Theory Prize on David Gale’s work
• Mathematician, puzzle lover David Gale has died
• David Gale, Who Created Marriage Algorithm, Is Dead at 86 by Jeremy Pearce, The New York Times

External links[link]

• MathSite
• Mathematical Genealogy Project