William Hornbeck
William Hornbeck ( born August 23, 1901 in Los Angeles, California, † October 19, 1983 in Ventura, California ) was an American editor.
Biography
Hornbeck began his career in 1916 as an assistant in the laboratories of the Keystone Comedies. At the age of 20 he received the first opportunity own responsibility to press for the cut. At first he was employed in the service of Mack Sennett and was founded in 1933 brought by the British film producer Alexander Korda to London and used for large film projects such as Rembrandt and The Four Feathers.
After the beginning of World War II, he followed Korda in the United States, where he got the cut for the propaganda film series Why We Fight. A frequent collaboration took place with Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak, with whom he had worked mainly on Why We Fight. After the movie Suddenly, Last Summer he ended his career as an editor, 1960 Manager at Universal Studios, where he was responsible for all aspects of the cut, and 1966 vice president. His responsibilities as Vice President of the final versions of Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, George Lucas's American Graffiti and Mark Robson's Earthquake fell.
Hornbeck was nominated four times for an Academy Award in the category Best Editing and could win the trophy in 1952 A Place in the Sun for the film.