Richard Halsey

Richard Halsey was born to be a film editor. While in junior high school at Bancroft Jr High, they needed someone to run the projectors for different classes so he volunteered in order to get out of class, so started his first experience with film. He was also in the orchestra with Ricky Nelson. Ricky played clarinet and Richard played oboe - not very well. Richard attended Hollywood High school with John Phillip Law, Salley Kellerman, Mike Farrell,and Yvette Mimieux. After high school Richard got a job at Warner Brothers mail dept and then moved into the music editing dept, and then got a job at 20th Century Fox music editorial with Ken Hall and a lot of great editors. Richard was then drafted into the army and spent 21 months and 16 days there, getting out early to go to College. That did not last long because he got a job at 20th Century Fox in the editorial dept during summer break and started work on Peyton Place with Editor George Nicholson, who taught him the basics of film editing. Once you learn that the rest is up to your own personal creativity. Richard then became an editor on Peyton Place at the age of 28 and moved into feature editing, winning the Oscar for Rocky at the age of 36. Some 60 pictures later he continues to live in the Hollywood Hills and edit films. He is married to Editor Colleen Halsey and has two beautiful daughters still at home, to be continued....