Ferris Webster

Ferris Webster ( born April 29, 1912 in Walla Walla, Washington; † February 4, 1989 in Nipomo, California ) was an American editor who was nominated with Blackboard Jungle, The Manchurian Candidate and The Great Escape in each case for the Oscar.

Life

Ferris Webster grew up in Washington State and attended the University of Southern California, where he was an outstanding athlete and runner. So heard Webster 1933 the best American middle distance runners on the 880 -yard dash route. He then completed the editing program of MGM Studios in 1939 and was able to perform with the short film Poetry of Nature its first autonomous film editing, before he made ​​his debut in 1943 with the musical comedy Swing Fever and the drama Harrigan 's Kid in the movie. With the film section at the crime drama The Wolves of Los Angeles ended the 1960 Webster's contract with MGM. Then it was primarily the " paranoia trilogy " with the three films The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May and The man who lived by director John Frankenheimer, got more attention for the Webster twice. For the first, he received his second Oscar nomination for Best Editing after he should also be nominated already for the seeds of violence and in the following year for The Great Escape.

At the end of his career he cut among other things, meeting in the morning, in the Order of the Dragon and Bronco Billy especially films in which Clint Eastwood directed. After it apparently came to a quarrel, the two sections of Firefox and Honkytonk Man had ended the last two films with Eastwood and Webster, and Webster's career. Eastwood himself studied with Joel Cox a new cutter, with whom he entered into a long-standing relationship.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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