Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert C Jones dies at 84 ANI | Updated: Feb 07, 2021 12:25 IST
Washington [US], February 7 (ANI): Robert C Jones, the acclaimed film editor who shaped classics such as Guess Who s Coming to Dinner and Love Story, has passed away. The artist, who won a screenplay Oscar for the war drama Coming Home , was 84 when he breathed his last.
The esteemed film editor died on February 1 at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with Lewy body dementia, reported The Hollywood Reporter. The late star s daughter Leslie Jones, who is an Oscar-nominated film editor, confirmed the news of her father s demise to the publication.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert C Jones dies at 84
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Robert C. Jones, Esteemed Film Editor and Oscar-Winning Coming Home Screenwriter, Dies at 84
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His daughter, Leslie Jones who is also an Oscar-nominated film editor confirmed to
Variety that Jones died on Feb. 1 following a long illness.
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“My Dad had a tremendous impact on my own editing career with whom I worked on several films as his assistant,” Leslie said in a statement. “Like Bob I did not go to film school and had no formal training in editing. But what I learned was that editing does not always require a specific skill set. He taught me that talent instead is guided by a sense of compassion, and integrity, and the search for truth and authenticity. He had all that and more.”
Coming Home, has died. He was 84.
Jones died Monday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with Lewy body dementia, his daughter Leslie Jones, an Oscar-nominated film editor just like her dad, told
The Hollywood Reporter. She called him her mentor, a gentle and generous man and a comedic genius. He truly was the sweetest guy.
His father, Harmon Jones, was an Oscar-nominated film editor, too, honored for his work on Elia Kazan s
Gentleman s Agreement (1947).
Robert C. Jones enjoyed regular collaborations with directors Stanley Kramer, Hal Ashby, Arthur Hiller and Warren Beatty during his career, and he was presented with a lifetime achievement award in 2014 from the American Cinema Editors.
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