Helen Wiggins
# Helen Wiggins

Helen Wiggins (born Ellen Matilda Wiggins) was a British film editor active from the 1930s through to the 1970s.

## Biography

Helen was the daughter of Jack Wiggins, a pioneering British cameraman. She followed in her father's footsteps as she grew up, gaining employment in processing laboratories and eventually becoming an editor for The National News, a colour newsreel.

She worked for Pathé News for several years, becoming its chief editor by 1940, after which she left to form her own company, Helen Wiggins Ltd. As a freelancer, she worked on many features, shorts, documentaries, and commercials during the 1940s through the 1950s.

## Selected filmography

* The Gorbals Story (1950)
* The Third Visitor (1951)
* Worm's Eye View (1951)
* Take Me to Paris (1951)
* Reluctant Heroes (1952)
* King of the Underworld (1952)
* Murder at Scotland Yard (1952)
* Little Big Shot (1952)
* Tim Driscoll's Donkey (1955)
* The Devil's Pass (1957)
* Not Wanted on Voyage (1957)
* Insomnia Is Good for You (1957)
* Up the Creek (1958)
* Nature's Paradise (1959)
* Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962)
* Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962)
