Hugh S. Fowler

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Hugh S. Fowler (born July 24, 1912 in Missouri , † August 2, 1975 in Manhattan Beach , California ) was an American film editor .

Life

Hugh S. Fowler, the son of an actor with Scottish ancestry, had attended college for a year and then worked as a writer, editor and reporter. He was drafted on January 27, 1941. After his service in World War II , Fowler was employed as an editor at the production company 20th Century Fox from 1952 , for which he then worked almost exclusively. In his 20-year career he worked on 38 productions in the film editing . For Fox he assembled some of the most famous movie scenes, like the singing and dancing of Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , 1953) or Monroe's legendary performance over the air shaft in Billy Wilder's The cursed 7th year ( The Seven Year Itch , 1955 ).

In 1971 he won both an Oscar for Best Editing and the American Cinema Editors' award for Patton - Rebel in Uniform ( Patton , 1970). His last film Das Was Roy Bean ( The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean , 1972), starring Paul Newman , was directed by John Huston . Fowler died three years later in California at the age of 63 .

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SURNAME Fowler, Hugh S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Missouri
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1975
Place of death Manhattan Beach , California