Francis D. Lyon

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Francis "Pete" D. Lyon (born July 29, 1905 in Bowbells , Burke County , North Dakota , † October 8, 1996 in Green Valley , Arizona ) was an American film director and film editor who won an Oscar for at the 1948 Academy Awards won the best edit .

Life

Lyon, who grew up in North Dakota, studied at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) after attending school and graduated in 1928. He began his career in Editor in the UK , where he on a number of projects of the film production company of J. Arthur Rank cooperated. After his return to the USA, he was involved in the production of nearly thirty films as an editor.

At the Academy Awards in 1948, he and Robert Parrish won the Oscar for Best Editing in The Hunt for Millions (Body and Soul, 1947) by Robert Rossen with John Garfield , Lilli Palmer and Hazel Brooks in the lead roles .

From the mid-1950s, Lyon, brother of the film producer Earle Lyon , worked as a film director and directed more than thirty films and television series . His best-known directorial work is The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), a Walt Disney Company film about the Andrews Heist during the American Civil War on April 12, 1862.

In 1993 his autobiography Twists of fate was published. To Oscar winner's international career . Lyon, who was a member of the academic association Phi Delta Theta , established a foundation named after him to award scholarships to film students.

Filmography (selection)

As an editor

  • 1932: Hypnotized
  • 1937: Tatjana ( Knight Without Armor)
  • 1938: Sweet Devil
  • 1939: Intermezzo
  • 1940: The Great Profile
  • 1952: Red Planet Mars
  • 1953: The Blue Stone of the Maharajah ( The Diamond Queen )

As a director

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Open Library
  2. ^ Lyon Scholarship - Film Student Information (phideltathetafoundation.org)
  3. ^ Francis D. Lyon Scholarship (educationcorner.com) ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.educationcorner.com
  4. ↑ The horror from the depths of the sea (content, photos)
personal data
SURNAME Lyon, Francis D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyon, Pete D. (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bowbells , Burke County , North Dakota
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1996
Place of death Green Valley , Arizona