Sandy Whitelaw

Alexander Sandy Whitelaw 28 April 1930 20 February 2015 was a British actor producer director and subtitler Whitelaw was born in London and educated in Switzerland the UK and the United States He represented Britain as a skier in the 1956 Olympics Whitelaws film career began when he worked as an assistant to the producer David O Selznick on the 1957 film A Farewell to Arms He also worked for the production company HechtLancaster He went on to work for United Artists in a number of capacities including as head of production for UA Europe At this time he was based in London and worked on films including Bernardo Bertoluccis Last Tango in Paris 1972 Federico Fellinis Roma 1972 and Pier Paolo Pasolinis The Decameron 1971 He directed two films Lifespan 1974 which starred Klaus Kinski and Vicious Circles 1997 which starred Ben Gazzara He acted in a number of films including The American Friend 1977 Broken English 1981 and The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 Whitelaw began to work as a subtitler in the 1970s in Paris It was the producer Pierre Cottrell who suggested that he subtitle Jean Eustaches film Mes petites amoureuses He continued to work as a subtitler for four decades Whitelaw provided English subtitles for more than 1000 films over a period of several decades He once called it like getting paid to do crosswords One of the more challenging jobs he took on was the subtitling with Stephen OShea of Mathieu Kassovitzs 1995 film La Haine Their subtitles for this film received considerable critical attention Source Article Sandy Whitelaw from Wikipedia in english licensed under CCBYSA 30