Walter A. Thompson

Walter A. Thompson ( born May 8, 1903 in Indiana, † December 17, 1975 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American editor who twice for an Academy Award for Best Editing and another time for the Eddie, the Price of the American Cinema Editors (ACE Award), was nominated for the best film editing.

Life

Thompson began his career as an editor in the film industry in 1930 at the Hollywood directed by John Ford film drama U 13 (Men Without Women ) with Kenneth MacKenna, Frank Albertson and George LeGuere. He worked until his death in the production of over seventy films and was in two films also worked as a film director.

At the Academy Awards in 1943 Thompson was first nominated for the Oscar for Best Editing, and indeed, for the film This Above All (1942 ) Anatole Litvak from with Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine and Thomas Mitchell. Another Academy Award nomination for Best Editing in 1960 he was awarded for the directed by Fred Zinnemann film drama Story of a Nun ( The Nun 's Story, 1959) with the main actors Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch and Edith Evans.

In addition, Thompson in 1963 was nominated for an Eddie Award by the American Cinema Editors ( ACE Award ) for Best Editor, and indeed for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, 1962) by Henry Levin and George Pal with Laurence Harvey as Wilhelm Grimm and Karlheinz Böhm as Jacob Grimm.

Filmography (selection)

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