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Sinclair was a juvenile player turned film editor who retained his celebrity in his native New Zealand long after the end of his Hollywood acting career. Sinclair`s feature credits include William Wellman`s The Light That Failed, Tower of London, Alexander Korda`s That Hamilton Woman and Raoul Walsh`s Desperate Journey. He also appeared in a series of children`s adventure films featuring the Five Little Peppers.
He served as a soldier during World War II. After that, he resumed work in 1955 Sinclair and began a long and fruitful collaboration with producer-director Roger Corman which led to a busy career in low-budget independent filmmaking. Sinclair edited Corman`s directorial debut, Swamp Women, and went on to work on at least a dozen of his films including Day the World Ended, The Intruder, The Raven and The Trip. He also edited a number of films by another low-rent auteur with big ideas, Bert I. Gordon: The Amazing Colossal Man, Invasion of the Saucer Men, War of the Colossal Beast, Attack of the Puppet People, and The Spider.
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