Doane Harrison
Doane Harrison (born 19 September 1894 in Paw Paw, Michigan, † November 11, 1968 in Riverside, California ) was an American editor and producer in film.
Life
Doane Harrison worked as an editor in Hollywood from 1925. Ten years later, he received a permanent contract at Paramount Pictures, where he very frequently worked from 1942 with director Billy Wilder. Wilder had personally asked to Harrison as editor when he made his first film with The Major and the Minor ( The Major and the Minor, 1942). Their collaboration lasted more than 25 years. Wilder was also said that, Harrison was always present at the shooting, to rotate the scenes as efficiently as possible, thus saving time and effort to ultimately useless shots.
1944 Harrison received his first Oscar nomination for Best Editing for Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo ( Five Graves to Cairo ). In 1946 he was for The Lost Weekend ( The Lost Weekend ) nominated again. Together with Arthur P. Schmidt, he was on Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Blvd. ) Nominated in 1951 a third and final time for the Oscar. However, he always went home empty-handed. In the 1950s he worked as a co- producer of Wilder's films, including The 7 year Itch ( The Seven Year Itch, 1955 ) Some Like It Hot ( Some Like It Hot, 1959) and la Douce Irma ( Irma la Douce, 1963). He died in 1968 at the age of 74 years in Riverside, California.