Walter Thompson

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Walter A. Thompson (born May 8, 1903 in Indiana , † December 17, 1975 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film editor who won twice for the Oscar for the best editing and again for the Eddie, the price the American Cinema Editors (ACE Award) for best Editor was nominated.

Life

Thompson began his career as an editor in the Hollywood film industry in 1930 for the drama U 13 (Men Without Women) directed by John Ford with Kenneth MacKenna , Frank Albertson and George LeGuere . Until his death he was involved in the production of over seventy films and also worked as a film director for two films .

At the Academy Awards in 1943 , Thompson was first nominated for the Oscar for best editing , for the feature film This Above All (1942) by Anatole Litvak with Tyrone Power , Joan Fontaine and Thomas Mitchell . He received another Oscar nomination for best editing in 1960 for the film drama Story of a Nun ( The Nun's Story , 1959) directed by Fred Zinnemann , starring Audrey Hepburn , Peter Finch and Edith Evans .

In addition, Thompson was nominated in 1963 for Eddie, the price of the American Cinema Editors (ACE Award) for Best Editor, specifically for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, 1962) by Henry Levin and George Pal with Laurence Harvey as Wilhelm Grimm and Karlheinz Böhm as Jacob Grimm .

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SURNAME Thompson, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Walter A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Indiana
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1975
Place of death Los Angeles , California