Frank P. Keller
Frank P. Keller, Jr. ( born February 4, 1913 in Pennsylvania, † December 25, 1977 in Hollywood, California ) was an American editor who was honored for his work on Peter Yates ' action film Bullitt with the Oscar.
Life
Keller began his film career in 1949 as an assistant to Al Clark in the production of The man who wanted to rule. In the 1950s he worked with Frank Capra on AT & T commissioned educational films. These included Our Mr. Sun from 1956, a Technicolorproduktion with Eddie Albert, which explained the function of the Sun and its impact on human life. 1957 Keller won this Emmy Award. They both turned to 1958, three more educational films of the series, then the basement for William Witneys film noir worked the hellcat first time in a feature film. In 1961, he reunited with Frank Capra, Pocketful of Miracles was his last film work. In the 1960s, the basement was also variously worked for television, including episodes of the television series The Avengers and melon and the Starship Enterprise.
In 1968, he first worked with director Peter Yates. Already their first collaboration, Bullitt, Keller received the 1969 Oscar, after he had received a first nomination in the year before Bloody for his work in the war film beach by Cornel Wilde. By 1976, Keller and Yates worked together on six films, including The Hot Rock, received another nomination for the Academy Award for Keller. In 1974 he was nominated for the last time Jonathan Livingston Seagull for an Oscar. In 1976 he was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He died the following year at the age of 64 years.