Hollywood film editor Richard Francis-Bruce buys in Birchgrove

Hollywood film editor Richard Francis-Bruce, whose credits include Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, and wife Susan have bought in Birchgrove.

The California-based couple have spent $3.2 million on a four-bedroom semi designed by architect Howard Smith.

It was secured in an off-market transaction from Sydney Swans head doctor Tom Cross, who had paid $2.1 million in 2010.

Francis-Bruce initially worked at the ABC in Sydney in the 1970s but left Australia in the early 1990s.

The couple sold in Roseville at $480,000 in 1993.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.