Fredric Steinkamp

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Fredric Steinkamp (born August 22, 1928 in Los Angeles , † February 20, 2002 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American film editor .

The son of an employee of the production company Fox had studied marketing at the university in his hometown, UCLA , and got to know the film business from the bottom up during the school and semester breaks.

In 1952 Steinkamp started as an assistant editor at MGM and rose to editor at the beginning of 1960. In the following three and a half decades Steinkamp produced the final version of a considerable number of high-quality entertainment productions in the classic, eye-catching Hollywood style, including multiple productions by the director Sydney Pollack . The editor, together with his colleagues Frank Santillo , Henry Berman and Stu Linder, received an Oscar for his work on the Formula 1 racing driver film Grand Prix , which was most likely to convince thanks to the rapid editing of the racing sequences . Four more nominations followed.

In the 1970s Steinkamp met his son William Steinkamp and worked closely with him, as an equal co-editor, on all of his films between 1979 and 1993. After working on the remake of Billy Wilder 's classic romances “ Sabrina ” , Fredric Steinkamp withdrew into private life. A year before his death, Steinkamp received the ACE Career Achievement Award for life's work.

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literature

  • Ephraim Katz: The Film Encyclopedia . Second edition. Harper Perennial, New York NY 1994, ISBN 0-06-273089-4 , pp. 1293f.
personal data
SURNAME Steinkamp, ​​Fredric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2002
Place of death Santa Monica