Frederic Knudtson (April 9, 1906 in
North Dakota
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– February 15, 1964 in
Los Angeles, California
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) was an American
film editor
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The film edi ...
with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964. He received six nominations for the
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
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, including five in the six years preceding his death.
Biography
His first credit was as an assistant editor on the 1932 film ''
What Price Hollywood?''. He then edited a string of
B-movie
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s throughout the 1930s and 1940s, picking up his first Oscar nomination in 1949 for the dark thriller ''
The Window'' (directed by
Ted Tetzlaff
Dale H. "Ted" Tetzlaff (3 June 1903, Los Angeles, California – 7 January 1995, Sausalito, California) was an Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s.
Career
Tetzlaff was particularly favored by t ...
).
His professional relationship with director
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous " message films" (he would call his movies ''heavy dramas'') and a liberal movie icon. began in 1955, which yielded his most prolific work and garnered him five more Academy Awards nominations: ''
The Defiant Ones
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'' (1958),
''
On the Beach'' (1959),
''
Inherit the Wind'' (1960),
''
Judgment at Nuremberg
''Judgment at Nuremberg'' is a 1961 American epic courtroom drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, written by Abby Mann and starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Diet ...
'' (1961),
and ''
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose and Tania Rose. The film, starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast of comedians, is ...
'' (1963).
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American film editors
1906 births
1964 deaths
People from North Dakota
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