Basil Wrangell

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Basil Wrangell (born June 19, 1906 in Ponte a Moriano , Italy , † April 26, 1977 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film editor and film director of Russian descent who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Editing in 1937 was.

Life

Wrangell emigrated to the USA in 1925 and began his career as an editor in the Hollywood film industry in 1927 for the film California and was responsible for editing over 40 film and television productions over the course of his career .

At the Academy Awards in 1937 he was nominated for the Oscar for best editing in the film The Good Earth (1937). Other well-known films on which he worked as an editor were The Foreign Mother (1930), Freaks (1932), Hide-Out (1934) and Love Happy (1949).

At the end of the 1930s he began to work as a director of mostly short films and in 1938 he directed his debut film Passing Parade . The more than 20 films he has directed include That Inferior Feeling (1940) and Mr. Blabbermouth! (1942). The latter was nominated for the Oscar for best documentary film at the Academy Awards in 1943 .

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SURNAME Wrangell, Basil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor and film director of Russian descent
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Ponte a Moriano , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1977
Place of death Los Angeles , California