Otto Meyer (film editor)
Otto Walther Meyer ( born July 12, 1901 in California, † 18 April 1980 ) was an American editor of German origin.
Life
Otto Meyer was born as the son of German immigrants in California. In 1931 he received a contract at Columbia Pictures as an editor. In the early 1930s, he first cut numerous Western directed by D. Ross Lederman with Tim McCoy in the lead role, such as Two-Fisted Law (1932) and Texas Cyclone ( 1932). In the latter, was the young John Wayne to see. Starting in 1936, Meyer was responsible for larger Columbia productions, including Theodora Goes Wild (1936 ) with Irene Dunne and George Cukor's The Sister of the Bride (Holiday, 1938) with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. After 1945, he was rarely used in movies. In the 1950s he often worked for the U.S. television, where he ( 1957-1961 ) and Gunsmoke ( 1959-1967 ) was, among others, in several episodes of the series Perry Mason responsible for the cut.
Otto Meyer received in the course of his career, two Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing: 1937 for Theodora Goes Wild and 1943 for Witness for the Prosecution ( The Talk of the Town, 1942) with Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman in the lead roles. In 1967, Meyer retired from show business. He died in 1980 at the age of 78 years and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.