Harmon Jones
Harmon Clifford Jones ( born June 3, 1911 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, † July 10, 1972 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American editor and film director who was nominated once for an Academy Award for Best Editing.
Life
Jones began his career in the film industry in Hollywood in 1944 as an editor for the film production company 20th Century Fox in the adventure romance at home in Indiana ( Home in Indiana) by Henry Hathaway with Walter Brennan, Jeanne Crain and Charlotte Greenwood, and worked until 1950 as an editor at the production of a little more than twenty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1948 he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Editing, and indeed for the staged by Elia Kazan Literaturverfilmung Gentleman's Agreement ( Gentleman's Agreement, 1947), in which Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield played the lead roles.
In 1951 he finished his cutter activities and began working as a director. After his directorial debut age protects against folly not (As Young as You Feel, 1951), a film comedy starring Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter and David Wayne, Harmon directed to 1969 35 more films and mostly episodes for television series.
His 1937 born son Robert C. Jones was also active as an editor. The granddaughter Leslie Jones trod this path also.