William Hornbeck

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William Hornbeck (born August 23, 1901 in Los Angeles , California , † October 19, 1983 in Ventura , California) was an American film editor .

biography

Hornbeck began his career in 1916 as an assistant in the laboratories of the Keystone Comedies. At the age of 20 he was given the opportunity to edit a film on his own responsibility for the first time . At first he was employed by Mack Sennett and was brought to London in 1933 by the British film producer Alexander Korda and used in larger film projects such as Rembrandt and Four Feathers .

After the beginning of the Second World War , he followed Korda to the United States, where he got the editing for the propaganda film series Why We Fight . A frequent collaboration took place with Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak , with whom he had mostly worked on Why We Fight . He ended his career as an editor after the film Suddenly last summer , became a manager at Universal Studios in 1960 , where he was responsible for all aspects of editing, and in 1966 became vice president. His responsibility as Vice President included the final versions of Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz , George Lucas ' American Graffiti and Mark Robson's Earthquake .

Hornbeck was nominated four times for the Oscar in the category Best Editing and won the trophy in 1952 for the film Ein Platz an der Sonne .

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