Christian Nyby
Christian Nyby ( born September 1, 1913 in Los Angeles, California, † September 17, 1993 in Temecula, California ) was an American film director and editor.
Life and work
His career in film began in 1943 as an editor war film Destination Tokyo. A year later, he first worked for the director Howard Hawks and the literary adaptation Have and Have Not. Two other common films followed: 1946 The Big Sleep, and two years later, Red River, was nominated for the Christian Nyby 1949 for an Oscar. Your fourth and final joint work was the The wide sky (The Big Sky), shown in German cinemas in highly abbreviated form, for example, under the title Trapper on the Missouri, in 1952. This film was also the last production to the Nyby was involved as an editor. A year earlier he had made his directorial debut with the sci-fi film The Thing from Another World. However this did not have a career developed as a feature film director, Christian Nyby instead was until the mid-1970s worked as a television director for various television series. So he staged in the early 70s several episodes of the series Emergency!. Other productions in which he was repeatedly involved have included tennis, I Spy, Bonanza and one thousand miles of dust.
Being born in 1941 son of Christian I. Nyby II is also active as a director.