Doane Harrison

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Doane Harrison (born September 19, 1894 in Paw Paw , Michigan , † November 11, 1968 in Riverside , California ) was an American film editor and film producer .

Life

Doane Harrison worked in the field of film editing in Hollywood from 1925 . Ten years later he got a permanent contract with Paramount Pictures , where he worked particularly often with director Billy Wilder from 1942 onwards . Wilder had personally asked for Harrison as editor when he made his first film, The Major and the Girl (1942). They worked together for more than 25 years. Wilder also insisted that Harrison be there at all times so that the film scenes would be shot as efficiently as possible in order to save time and effort on ultimately unsuitable shots.

In 1944 Harrison received his first Oscar nomination for Best Editing for Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo . In 1946 he was nominated again for The Lost Weekend . Together with Arthur P. Schmidt , he was nominated a third and final time for an Oscar in 1951 for Boulevard of the Twilight . However, he always came away empty-handed. In the 1950s he co-produced Wilder's films, including The 7th Year Itch (1955), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Girl Irma la Douce (1963). He died in Riverside , California in 1968 at the age of 74 .

Filmography (selection)

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production

Awards

  • 1944: Oscar nomination in the category Best Editing for Five Graves to Cairo
  • 1946: Oscar nomination for Best Editing for The Lost Weekend
  • 1951: Oscar nomination for Best Editing for Twilight Boulevard together with Arthur P. Schmidt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Horton: Billy Wilder. Interviews . University Press of Mississippi, 2001, ISBN 1-57806-443-0 , p. 53.
personal data
SURNAME Harrison, Doane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Paw Paw , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1968
Place of death Riverside , California