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John Bloom (born 12 September 1935, London) is a British film editor with nearly fifty film credits commencing with the 1960 film, The Impersonator. He is the brother of actress Claire Bloom.
Bloom won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Award for Best Edited Feature Film for Gandhi (1982). He was nominated for Academy Awards in 1981 for his work on The French Lieutenant's Woman and in 1985 for A Chorus Line. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing in 1981 for The French Lieutenant's Woman, in 1982 for Gandhi, and in 1984 for Under Fire (with Mark Conte).
In 1999 the ACE awarded Bloom its Career Achievement Award.
In 2001 he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for Wit, and in 2004 the ACE Award for Best Edited Miniseries or Movie for Non-Commercial Television for his work on Angels in America (2003).
John Bloom (born 1931) is an English entrepreneur, best known for his role in the ‘Washing-machine Wars’ of 1962-64, when he drastically reduced prices by direct sales that cut out the retailers. His company Rolls Razor made great inroads into the market, but several manufacturers obtained injunctions to stop them selling at below the fixed retail price. His operation was also hit by a long postal strike, and the withdrawal of a major backer, forcing the company into liquidation. Bloom was a controversial figure, whose aggressive techniques shook-up a complacent market, but who gave new power to the consumer. His often-repeated motto "It’s no sin to make a profit" became the title of his memoirs.
Bloom was born to orthodox Jewish parents in London's East End. Bloom's father, Sam, was born in Austria and was a tailor. His mother Dora was of Sephardic background. He attended Hackney Downs School which he left aged 16.
He then tried a number of jobs before National Service in the Royal Air Force. Bloom was initially posted to No.3 Radio School at RAF Compton Bassett near Calne, Wiltshire for training as a signalman. It was there that he started his first enterprise. He noticed that a local coach company, Cards Coaches of Devizes, provided coaches to the RAF under contract. On Saturday afternoons these took airmen from the base to London on 36 hour passes. With a friend who ran a coach company in Stoke Newington, Bloom undercut Cards Coaches by half. Cards took Bloom to court but the judge sided with Bloom who declared that It's no sin to make a profit , which later became his motto. Bloom was later posted to Bletchley Park and then Bush House in the Aldwych, London, on the grounds that his mother was unwell; she died some years later from a form of Multiple Sclerosis.
Actors: Angela Bassett (actress), Tony Curran (actor), Mark Gordon (producer), tomandandy (composer), Ellen David (actress), Benoît Mathieu (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Patrick Joseph (miscellaneous crew), Chelah Horsdal (actress), Orlando Jones (actor), Marjorie Hamel (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Francois Hall (miscellaneous crew), Bree Turner (actress), Helene Muller (miscellaneous crew), Rick Cranford (miscellaneous crew), Diane Janna (miscellaneous crew),
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Plot: Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot for the short-lived TV series.
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