Francis D. Lyon

Francis " Pete " D. Lyon ( born July 29, 1905 in Bowbells, Burke County, North Dakota; † October 8, 1996 in Green Valley, Arizona) was an American film director and editor who won an Oscar for at the Oscars 1948 the best section won.

Life

Lyon, who grew up in North Dakota, studied post-school at the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA) and graduated in 1928 from. He began his career as an editor in the film industry in the UK, where he worked in a number of films, the production company of J. Arthur Rank. After his return to the U.S. he was involved as an editor in the production of nearly thirty films.

In 1948, he won the Academy Awards with Robert Parrish the Oscar for Best Editing in hunt for million ( Body and Soul, 1947) by Robert Rossen with John Garfield, Lilli Palmer and Hazel Brooks in the lead roles.

From the mid- 1950s worked Lyon, brother of film producer Earle Lyon, as a film director and directed more than thirty films and television series. His best known work is The Great Locomotive Director Chase (1956 ), a film of the Walt Disney Company about the Andrews Raid during the Civil War on April 12, 1862.

In 1993 he published his autobiography Twists of fate. An Oscar winner's career internationally. Lyon, a member of the Phi Delta Theta academic connection was established a foundation named after him for the award of scholarships to film students.

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