Rudi Fehr

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Rudolf A. "Rudi" Fehr (born July 6, 1911 in Berlin , German Reich ; † April 16, 1999 in Los Angeles , California ) was a German - American film editor and studio manager for both Warner Bros. and American Zoetrope .

Life

Born in Berlin, Rudolf Fehr cut his first film with Der Schlemihl in 1931 and then worked for a few years as an editor for the Jewish film producer Sam Spiegel , with whom he also fled the Nazis from Germany via Austria to England. There he worked on the film editing of Buster Keaton's comedy The Invader . In 1936 he moved to Hollywood , where he initially translated German films into English for 60 US dollars a week. After a short time, however, he received from Warner Bros. a position as assistant editor for Warren Low . After he edited a feature film on his own for the first time with My Love Came Back in 1940, he worked as an editor for films such as Ich confess and On Call Mord , both by Alfred Hitchcock , for the next 15 years .

In 1952, Fehr was promoted to studio management by Jack L. Warner as President of Production, which meant that, with one exception during the post-production of THX 1138 , he was not to edit a film for almost 30 years. After Fehr retired from the business as studio manager in 1976, he went to Europe, where he viewed German, French, Italian and Spanish films for Warner that had the potential for Hollywood adaptations. In 1982 he was hired by Francis Ford Coppola for his production company American Zoetrope as head of post-production, which also gave him the opportunity to cut his film One with a Heart . With the comedy Die Ehre der Prizzis, Fehr edited his last film together with his daughter Kaja Fehr and celebrated his greatest success in 1986 with an Oscar nomination for Best Editing .

Since January 28, 1940, Rudolf Fehr was married to the actress Maris Wrixon , whom he met while filming The Dollar Blessing . They stayed married until Fehr's death and had four children together, including the editor Kaja Fehr. Rudolf A. Fehr died on April 16, 1999 as a result of a heart attack .

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 164 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jill Pesselnick: Rudi Fehr . In: Variety . May 12, 1999. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ Although "Variety" mentions Fehr as co-editor of The Invader , only Daniel Birt appears in other sources: Tom Dardis: Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down . Hal Leonard, 1996, ISBN 978-0-87910-117-6 , p. 297.
  3. ↑ a b Obituaries: Rudi Fehr; Film Editor on 'Key Largo' . In: The Los Angeles Times , April 20, 1999. 
  4. ↑ a b c Allen Eyles: Obituary: Rudi Fehr . In: The Independent , June 16, 1999. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  5. ^ Movie Starlet Weds , The Pittsburgh Press, January 29, 1940, accessed January 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Fehr, Rudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fehr, Rudolf A. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1999
Place of death Los Angeles , California, United States