Harry Keller (22 February 1913 – 19 January 1987) was an American film editor, producer and director, who made a number of

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. In 1958, Keller was tasked by Universal Pictures with directing re-shoots and additional scenes on the

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Mystery of the White Room ''Mystery of the White Room'' is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Otis Garrett and starring Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack and Joan Woodbury.Weaver & Brunas p.441 A surgeon is killed during the middle of an operation when the hospital room is thr ...

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Black Hills Express ''Black Hills Express'' is a 1943 American Western film directed by John English and starring Don 'Red' Barry, Wally Vernon and Ariel Heath.Martin p.306 The film's art direction was by Russell Kimball. Partial cast * Don 'Red' Barry as Lon ...

'' (1943) editor *'' Days of Old Cheyenne'' (1943) editor *'' Sheriff of Sundown'' (1944) editor *'' Northwest Outpost'' (1947) editor *''

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'' (1948) editor *''

The Blonde Bandit ''The Blonde Bandit'' is a 1949 American crime film directed by Harry Keller and written by John K. Butler. The film stars Gerald Mohr, Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Charles Cane, Larry J. Blake and Argentina Brunetti. The film was released ...

'' (1949) director *'' The Red Menace'' (1949) editor *'' The Arizona Cowboy'' (1950) editor *'' Tarnished'' (1950) director *''

Fort Dodge Stampede Fort Dodge Stampede is a 1951 Western film produced and directed by Harry Keller and starring Allan Lane. This film is one of 34 'B-movie' westerns filmed between 1947 and 1953 featuring Allan 'Rocky' Lane and his horse Black Jack.p.62 Martin, L ...

'' (1951) assoc. producer *'' Desert of Lost Men'' (1951) associ. producer *''

Belle Le Grand ''Belle Le Grand'' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Allan Dwan and written by D.D. Beauchamp. The film stars Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching, Hope Emerson, Grant Withers, Stephen Chase, John Qualen and Harry Morgan. The fi ...

'' (1951) director *'' The Dakota Kid'' (1951) editor *'' Thundering Caravans'' (1952) director *''

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'' (1952) assoc. producer *'' Rose of Cimarron'' (1952) director *'' Leadville Gunslinger'' (1952) assoc. producer *'' Marshal of Cedar Rock'' (1953) director *'' Bandits of the West'' (1963) director *'' Savage Frontier'' (1953) director *''

El Paso Stampede ''El Paso Stampede'' is a 1953 Western film directed by Harry Keller. Plot Federal Marshal "Rocky" Lane ( Allan Lane) saddles up Black Jack to go to the Mexican border to investigate cattle rustling during the Spanish–American War He gets a ...

'' (1953) director *'' Red River Shore'' (1953) director *''

Phantom Stallion ''Phantom Stallion'' is a 1954 American Western film directed by Harry Keller and starring Rex Allen, Carla Balenda and Slim Pickens.Pitts p.249 The film is credited as being the last singing cowboy Western. The film's art direction was by F ...

'' (1954) assoc. producer *'' The Unguarded Moment'' (1956) director *'' Man Afraid'' (1957) director *'' Quantez'' (1957) director *''

The Female Animal ''The Female Animal'' is a 1958 American CinemaScope film noir drama film directed by Harry Keller and starring Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling and George Nader. Although she lived until 2000, this was Lamarr's final film in a film career ...

'' (1958) director *''

Day of the Badman ''Day of the Badman'' is a 1958 American Western film directed by Harry Keller and starring Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon and John Ericson. Plot Judge Jim Scott (Fred MacMurray) wants to sentence a killer to die, but the outlaw's family members i ...

'' (1958) director *'' Voice in the Mirror'' (1958) director *''

'' (1958) - director, additional scenes and re-shoots *'' Step Down to Terror'' (1958) director *'' Texas John Slaughter'' (1960) director *''

Seven Ways from Sundown ''Seven Ways from Sundown'' is a 1960 American Western film directed by Harry Keller and starring Audie Murphy and Barry Sullivan. It is based on the novel of the same name by Clair Huffaker, who also wrote the script. Young cast member Teddy R ...

'' (1960) director *''

Tammy Tell Me True ''Tammy Tell Me True'' is a 1961 American Eastmancolor comedy film directed by Harry Keller and starring Sandra Dee and John Gavin, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey and Julia Meade. The film was based on Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1959 novel of t ...

'' (1961) director *''

Six Black Horses ''Six Black Horses'' is a 1962 American Western film directed by Harry Keller and starring Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea and Joan O'Brien. Plot Ben Lane (Audie Murphy) is breaking a horse in the desert that he believes to be stray. He is caught by ...

'' (1962) director *''

Tammy and the Doctor ''Tammy and the Doctor'' is a 1963 Eastmancolor romantic comedy film directed by Harry Keller and starring Sandra Dee as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree and Peter Fonda (in his film debut) as Dr. Mark Cheswick. It is the third of the four Tammy films. Pl ...

'' (1963) director *'' The Brass Bottle'' (1964) director *''

Kitten with a Whip ''Kitten with a Whip'' is a 1964 American crime drama film directed by Douglas Heyes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Whit Masterson, a pseudonym for writers Robert Allison “Bob” Wade and H. Bill Miller, who also wrote the novel on which th ...

'' (1964) producer *''

Send Me No Flowers ''Send Me No Flowers'' is a 1964 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by Julius Epstein, based on the play of the same name by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, which had a brief run on Broadway in 1960. ...

'' (1964) producer *''

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'' (1965) producer *''

That Funny Feeling ''That Funny Feeling'' is a 1965 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, and Donald O'Connor. This was the third film pairing of Dee and then-husband Darin, following 1961's ''Come Septembe ...

'' (1965) producer *'' Texas Across the River'' (1966) producer *'' In Enemy Country'' (1968) producer *''

Skin Game ''Skin Game'' is a 1971 American independent comedy western directed by Paul Bogart and Gordon Douglas, and starring James Garner and Lou Gossett. The supporting cast features Susan Clark, Edward Asner, Andrew Duggan, Parley Baer and R ...

'' (1971) producer

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