Arthur P. Schmidt

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Arthur P. Schmidt (born August 21, 1912 , † July 22, 1965 in Los Angeles ) was an American film editor .

Life

Arthur P. Schmidt (is often just written Arthur Schmidt) began his career in the early 1930s in films such as Anne of Green Gables or the Bulldog Drummond series. After working in the 1940s as fourteen years Sing-Sing , Aloma, the daughter of the South Sea , The Blue Dahlia or be Pauline, let the kissing he received in 1950 for the Editor to Sunset Boulevard his first Oscar nomination. With Lindbergh - My Flight over the Ocean and with The Old Man and the Sea , his work contributed significantly to the atmosphere of these films.

In 1957 he received a second Oscar nomination for Sayonara . Other well-known works in which Arthur P. Schmidt was involved are We Are Not Angels , Some Like It Hot , Cinderella , Reporters of Satan , The Naked and the Dead , King of the Vagabonds , Sabrina and The Naked and the Dead . Schmidt's last film as editor was Money does not matter from 1962. Subsequently, up to and including 1965, he was involved as a co-producer ( asscoiate producer ) on several film projects, including the Jerry Lewis comedy The Crazy Professor (1963).

Arthur P. Schmidt died in 1965 at the age of only 52. He had four children with his wife Madeline. His son Arthur Schmidt , born in 1937, is now himself a renowned editor in Hollywood and a two-time Oscar winner ( Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit , Forrest Gump ).

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SURNAME Schmidt, Arthur P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1912
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1965
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States