Arthur Hilton

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Arthur David Hilton (born April 5, 1897 in London - † October 15, 1979 in Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles , California ) was a British - American film editor , film director and film producer , who won both the Oscar for Best Editing Eddie , the price of the American Cinema Editors (ACE Award) for best Editing, and twice for the Primetime Emmy was nominated for outstanding performance while cutting.

Life

Hilton began his career as an editor in the Hollywood film industry in 1928 on the drama The Hound of Silver Creek directed by Stuart Paton with the dog Dynamite the Dog and Edmund Cobb and Gloria Gray . Until his death in 1979 he worked as an editor, director and producer in the production of more than 120 films and episodes of television series.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1947 Hilton was nominated for the Oscar for Best Editing nomination, specifically for after Ernest Hemingway's short story The Killer incurred feature film The Killers (The Killers, 1946) by Robert Siodmak with Burt Lancaster , Ava Gardner , and Edmond O'Brien in the leading roles.

Between 1950 and 1960, Hilton also worked as a director and as such mostly staged episodes of television series such as The Buster Keaton Show (1950), Life with Buster Keaton (1951), Lassie (1956), The Bounty Hunter (Wanted: Dead or Alive, 1960) , Johnny Ringo (1960), Richard Diamond, Private Detective (Richard Diamond, Private Detective), but also the western The Return of Jesse James (1950) with John Ireland , Ann Dvorak and Henry Hull .

In 1970, Hilton received his first of two Primetime Emmy nominations for outstanding merits in entertainment film editing for the 1966-1973 Paramount Television series Cobra, Take Over (Mission: Impossible) by Paramount Television for the CBS . In 1971, he was again nominated for the Primetime Emmy in this category, this time for the produced from 1968 to 1980 also by the CBS television series Hawaii Five-O (Hawaii Five-0).

As a producer, he also produced the two television films The Dog of Baskerville (1972) and The Adventures of Nick Carter (1972) as well as four episodes of the television series Police Story (1977 to 1978).

Hilton was most recently nominated in 1978, along with Harry Kaye and Gerard Wilson, for the Eddie, the American Cinema Editors' Award, for the best-cut television film special for Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977) by David W. Rintels with Cliff Robertson , Jason Robards and Stefanie Powers .

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SURNAME Hilton, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilton, Arthur David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American film editor, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 1979
Place of death Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles , California