Sidney Meyers
Sidney Meyers (born March 9, 1906 in New York City ; died December 4, 1969 there ) was an American film director , screenwriter and film editor .
Life
Meyers was born the son of Jewish immigrants in East Harlem. He has been very interested in music since childhood and he is learning to play the violin. At the age of 21 he became a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for a few years . His second major area of interest was photography, and then film. From the mid-1930s he wrote as a film critic under the pseudonym Robert Stebbins , finally turning to film. He belonged to the left Frontier Films circle. In 1937 he worked as a director for the first time and as such, u. a. with Jay Leyda , involved in the short documentary The People of the Cumberland . During the Second World War Meyers worked in the film department of the US Office of War Information .
In 1948 he directed Eine von den Stillen , his first independent film production, which was only followed as a director in 1960, Das cruel Auger . In both cases he was jointly responsible for the script and the film editing. Together with Helen Levitt and Janice Loeb , he was nominated for One of the Quiet at the 1950 Academy Awards for the Oscarin in the category Best Original Screenplay. In the following years he was mainly active as a film editor for cinema and television until the end of his life.
For The Cruel Eye , Meyers, along with Ben Maddow and Joseph Strick, received the Flaherty Documentary Award at the 1960 British Academy Film Awards .
Meyers died at the age of 63.
Filmography (selection)
- 1937: The People of the Cumberland - co-director
- 1948: One of the Pacific (The Quiet One ) - Director, Screenplay, Editing
- 1950: The Stairs - cut
- 1956: A Man Conquers Fear (Edge of the City ) - cut
- 1960: The cruel eye ( The Savage Eye ) - Director, Screenplay, Editing
- 1969: Slaves - cut
- 1969: Tropic of Cancer - section
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Hess: The Savagely Quiet One: Remembering Sidney Meyers. November 1, 2014, accessed January 16, 2018 .
Web links
- Sidney Meyers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyers, Sidney |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stebbins, Robert (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American director, screenwriter and film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1969 |
| Place of death | New York City |