Known for Editing
Jon Gregory (21 May 1944 – 9 September 2021) was a British film editor. He began his career with TV series Shoestring (1981), A Year in Provence (1994), Deeply (2000), The Proposition, (2005), In Bruges (2008), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) for which he received an Academy Award for Best Film Editing nomination at the 90th Academy Awards. Gregory was previously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He was a member of the American Cinema Editors. Gregory died on September 9, 2021, at age 77 after a short illness.
Born
May 21, 1944
Died
September 9, 2021 (age 77)
Filmography
38 films, 6 shows


Peterloo
2018 · 2h 35m
country: United Kingdom
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.


Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.


A United Kingdom
2016 · 1h 51m
country: Czech Republic
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.


Silent Fear
2015 · 1h 38m
country: Netherlands
Sabine is looking for the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend twenty years ago. An encounter with the handsome Olaf, a man she remembers from her teenage years, and the announcement of a high school reunion turn her life upside down.


Slow West
2015 · 1h 24m
country: Australia
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.


Mr. Turner
2014 · 2h 30m
country: France
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.


A Running Jump
2012 · 34m
country: United Kingdom
Gary attempts to buy a second-hand car. What should be a straightforward task is turned into something of a quest by various people, including dodgy East End car dealer Perry, Perry's taxi-driver dad, a garage owner called Derek, Perry's wife Debbie and couple of twins.


Hysteria
2011 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.


Another Year
2010 · 2h 9m
country: United Kingdom
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.


West Is West
2010 · 1h 43m
country: United Kingdom
Salford, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.


The Road
2009 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.


Three and Out
2008 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.


In Bruges
2008 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.


Penelope
2007 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soulmate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company? This untraditional fairy tale is about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.


The River King
2005 · 1h 35m
country: Canada
Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was being badly bullied, Abel suspects that a dangerous schoolboy initiation has gone horribly wrong and he secretly solicits the help of a sympathetic teacher, Betsy. He is warned off the investigation by his boss, as the school is a generous benefactor to the Police benevolent fund. Abel, however, cannot let the case go, not only because his own brother committed suicide years before, but also it seems that the spirit of the dead boy is leaving them clues as to what really happened that night.


The Proposition
2005 · 1h 44m
country: Australia
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.


Chasing Liberty
2004 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working undercover for her father.


Ned Kelly
2003 · 1h 50m
country: Australia
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.


Killing Me Softly
2002 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.


Deeply
2000 · 1h 41m
country: Germany
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.


Beautiful Creatures
2000 · 1h 25m
country: United Kingdom
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.


Pushing Tin
1999 · 2h 4m
country: Germany
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.


Living Out Loud
1998 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. Judith stews, plans, plots and fantasizes, but she can't decide what to do with her life until she goes out to a night club to see singer Liz Bailey, who is full of advice on life and love. While out on the town, Judith is suddenly kissed by a total stranger, which opens her eyes to new possibilities... which is when she notices Pat, the elevator operator in her building.


Donnie Brasco
1997 · 2h 7m
country: United States
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.


Loch Ness
1996 · 1h 41m
country: United Kingdom
Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper, introduces him to a small family of Nessie-dinosaurs.


Secrets & Lies
1996 · 2h 22m
country: United Kingdom
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.


An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.


Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.


Naked
1993 · 2h 11m
country: United Kingdom
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.


A Sense of History
1992 · 26m
country: United Kingdom
Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent tells his family history to the crew, who slowly come to realise - as do we - that things are not what they seem.


London Kills Me
1991 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.


Life Is Sweet
1991 · 1h 43m
country: United Kingdom
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
The Ship
The Ship
1990 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
Filmed performance of Bill Bryden's play about life in and around the shipyards of Glasgow, performed in the former engine shed of Harland & Wolff shipyard, Govan.


Leave to Remain
1989 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Set during the political upheaval following Ayatollah Khomeini's rise to power in Iran, Les Blair's gripping work tells the story of Shahin Mohamedi, a young Iranian woman studying in London. When the cheques her father sends from home are intercepted by the Khomeini government, she is threatened with repatriation by vicious British immigration officers. To remain in England she must be granted 'Leave To Remain'. Enter Jimmy Johnstone, an English wide-boy strapped for cash and willing to perform the paper marriage that will ensure Shahin's freedom. Jimmy wants to build on the relationship, but Shahin's heart is a thousand miles away with her old fiance.


High Hopes
1989 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.


The Short & Curlies
1987 · 17m
country: United Kingdom
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...


The Story of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
1983 · 1h
country: Unknown
At the forefront of the folk revival movement since the 1950's, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem are a highly influential group of Irishmen. Popularizing the traditional music of their homeland, the Brothers brought Celtic music into America, and remain some of its most avid performers.