Ardan Fisher obituary

My friend Ardan Fisher, who has died aged 79, was a film editor for the BBC during its creative heyday. While working in the music and arts department he edited documentaries such as The Orson Welles Story (1982) and Artists and Models (1986), working alongside BBC stalwarts including Alan Yentob and Leslie Megahey. He then moved into television drama and film after winning a Bafta award for the thriller Edge of Darkness (1985).

Ardan was born in Cambridge to Bryan, bursar of the Bath Academy of Art and his wife, Irene (nee Jefferies), a teacher. He grew up in Corsham in Wiltshire, where his parents moved into a big house on the high street and transformed the spare bedrooms into lodgings for art students. As a result, he was surrounded by unconventional, inquiring minds – and gained a worldliness beyond his years.