Douglas Stewart (film editor)

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Samuel Douglas Stewart (born March 27, 1919 in Canada , † March 3, 1995 in Los Angeles , California ) was a Canadian - American film editor who won an Oscar for best editing at the 1984 Academy Awards .

Life

Stewart began his career as an editor in the film industry in 1953 for The Hitch-Hiker and was involved in the production of over fifty films and television series by 1983 . In the 1970s and 1980s he was involved in several Don Siegel films.

In 1971 he was first nominated for an Emmy for outstanding merits in film editing in entertainment programming, namely for the episode To Taste of Death But Once the NBC- produced television series The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970) by Daryl Duke with Hal Holbrook , Michael Tolan and Sharon Acker in the lead roles . He received another Emmy nomination in this category in 1976 for an episode of the ABC- produced television series Rich and Poor (1976) starring Peter Strauss , Nick Nolte and Susan Blakely .

At the Academy Awards in 1984 he won an Oscar for best editing with Glenn Farr , Lisa Fruchtman , Stephen A. Rotter and Tom Rolf in the film The Stuff The Heroes Are Made of (1983) by Philip Kaufman with Sam Shepard , Scott Glenn and Ed Harris .

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SURNAME Stewart, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stewart, Samuel Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Canada
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1995
Place of death Los Angeles , California