William Austin (film editor)

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William Nelson Austin (born January 28, 1903 in Nanaimo , British Columbia , Canada , † December 28, 1993 in Los Angeles ) was an American film editor .

Life

William Austin worked as an editor for small production companies in Hollywood from 1928. His editing work includes more than 150 films, most of which are small B-films of various genres. In two of these films, Special Inspector and Convicted from 1938, Rita Hayworth played the leading female role - a year before her breakthrough as an actress. In 1944 Austin was responsible for the editing of the Sherlock Holmes film The Spider's Nest with Basil Rathbone as Holmes at Universal Studios . Austin worked again afterwards for insignificant studios, but in 1953 he received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Editing for Sturmgeschwader Komet .

From 1953 he was also used in US television, including ten episodes of the television show by the comedian duo Abbott and Costello . In 1978 he worked one last time as the editor of a movie. He died in Los Angeles in 1993 at the age of 90 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1928: Across the Plains
  • 1928: Fangs of Fate
  • 1932: Fancy Curves
  • 1936: Fury and the Woman
  • 1937: Woman Against the World
  • 1938: Special Inspector
  • 1938: Convicted
  • 1944: The Spider's Nest ( Sherlock Holmes and The Spider Woman )
  • 1945: GI Honeymoon
  • 1946: Charlie Chan - Dangerous Money ( Dangerous Money )
  • 1949: prison without bars ( Bad Boy )
  • 1951: Bomba, the lord of the elephants ( Elephant Stampede )
  • 1952: Sturmgeschwader Komet ( Flat Top )
  • 1953: Kansas Pacific ( Kansas Pacific )
  • 1954: arrows at dusk ( Arrow in the Dust )
  • 1954: The daughter of the Caliph ( The Adventures of Hajji Baba )
  • 1955: Wichita
  • 1957: Dead or Alive ( Last of the Badmen )
  • 1957: death in small doses ( Death in Small Doses )
  • 1957: The tall stranger ( The Tall Stranger )
  • 1958: The Daredevils of San Fernando ( Cole Younger, Gunfighter )
  • 1958: The Kansas Kanaille ( Quantrill's Raiders )
  • 1958: In the claws of Venus ( Queen of Outer Space )
  • 1958: With the knife in the back ( Revolt in the Big House )
  • 1959: The dogs bite the last ( Battle Flame )
  • 1959: The Beast ( The Bat )
  • 1959: All hell breaks loose on U-17 ( The Atomic Submarine )
  • 1960: The 13 victims of Dr. Desmond ( The Hypnotic Eye )
  • 1962: Panic in Year Zero ( Panic in Year Zero! )
  • 1953: Death rode in the saddle ( Gunfight at Comanche Creek )
  • 1964: Goldfieber ( Blood on the Arrow )
  • 1965: Decision at the Big Horn ( The Great Sioux Massacre )
  • 1966: Jesse James meets Frankenstein's Daughter
  • 1967–1968: Tarzan (TV series, four episodes)
  • 1978: Legend of the Northwest

Awards

  • 1953: Nomination for an Oscar in the category Best Editing for Sturmgeschwader Komet

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personal data
SURNAME Austin, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Austin, William Nelson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanaimo , British Columbia , Canada
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1993
Place of death los Angeles