Known for Editing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harry Marker (October 7, 1899 – October 18, 1990) is an American Oscar-nominated film editor, who also worked in the television medium. Over the course of his 45-year career, he worked on more than 100 films and television shows. In 1946 he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Film Editing for The Bells of St. Mary's.
Born
October 7, 1899
Died
October 18, 1990 (age 91)
Birthplace
Tipton, Indiana, USA
Filmography
68 films, 3 shows


Thunder Road
1958 · 1h 32m · US
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.


The Girl Most Likely
1958 · 1h 38m · US
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.


Jet Pilot
1957 · 1h 52m · US
U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan.


Bundle of Joy
1956 · 1h 38m · US
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...


Tension at Table Rock
1956 · 1h 33m · US
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.


Great Day in the Morning
1956 · 1h 32m · US
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.


The Treasure of Pancho Villa
1955 · 1h 32m · US
In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.


Rage at Dawn
1955 · 1h 27m · US
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…


The Americano
1955 · 1h 25m · US
An American Rancher takes a small herd of Brahma bulls to Brazil where he has sold them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of a range war......and in love. His concern, who are really his friends and who are his enemies


Susan Slept Here
1954 · 1h 38m · US
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.


Plunder of the Sun
1953 · 1h 21m · US
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.


Double Dynamite
1951 · 1h 20m · US
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.


Two Tickets to Broadway
1951 · 1h 46m · US
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.


Payment on Demand
1951 · 1h 30m · US
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.


The Secret Fury
1950 · 1h 25m · US
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.


Holiday Affair
1949 · 1h 27m · US
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.


Every Girl Should Be Married
1948 · 1h 25m · US
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage


Rachel and the Stranger
1948 · 1h 33m · US
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.


Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948 · 1h 34m · US
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.


Night Song
1948 · 1h 42m · US
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.


A Likely Story
1947 · 1h 20m · US
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.


The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · 1h 37m · US
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.


The Spiral Staircase
1946 · 1h 23m · US
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.


The Bells of St. Mary's
1945 · 2h 6m · US
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.


Sing Your Way Home
1945 · 1h 12m · US
A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musical comedy filled with memorable performances.


Pan-Americana
1945 · 1h 24m · US
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.


Music in Manhattan
1944 · 1h 21m · US
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.


My Pal, Wolf
1944 · 1h 15m · US
A lonely child, neglected by her parents, encounters and befriends a German Shepherd, but she's unaware the animal is a military dog being trained for service in WW2.


Seven Days Ashore
1944 · 1h 14m · US
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
Rookies in Burma
Rookies in Burma
1943 · 1h 2m · US
In the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles, and Mike Strager, are still spending most of their time on KP duty. However they are captured by the Japanese and taken to a prison camp and discover that their long-suffering Sergeant Burke has also been captured. They manage to escape and find their way to a Burmese village in which two American showgirls, Janie and Connie who have escaped from Shanghai, are stranded. They all borrow an elephant and head for India.


The Adventures of a Rookie
1943 · 1h 6m · US
Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.


Petticoat Larceny
1943 · 1h 1m · US
An 11-year-old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.


Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1943 · 1h 3m · US
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.


Ladies' Day
1943 · 1h 2m · US
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.


Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942 · 1h 4m · US
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.


The Falcon Takes Over
1942 · 1h 5m · US
One night in New York, beefy escaped convict Moose Malloy hunts for his ex-girlfriend Velma, leaving a trail of mayhem behind him. Velma seems to be well-hidden, and adventurer The Falcon, intrigued, investigates on his own, approaching the heart of the mystery via a varied sequence of shady characters and attractive women.


A Date with the Falcon
1942 · 1h 3m · US
The Falcon is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when the mysterious Rita Mara asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, 'Goldy' Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.


Lady Scarface
1941 · 1h 6m · US
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.


Repent at Leisure
1941 · 1h 6m · US
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.


Play Girl
1941 · 1h 17m · US
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.


Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · 1h 4m · US
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.


Cross-Country Romance
1940 · 1h 8m · US
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.


A Bill of Divorcement
1940 · 1h 14m · US
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.


Curtain Call
1940 · 1h 3m · US
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.


Married and in Love
1940 · 59m · US
Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into writer Doris Wilding, his old college flame, whom he has not seen in ten years. After reminiscing about their past, Doris and Leslie make a dinner date with their respective spouses. On the eve of the Yates's dinner party, Leslie's wife Helen brings home a magazine article written by Doris, which sparks Leslie's memory of his separation from her.


Reno
1939 · 1h 13m · US
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.


Five Came Back
1939 · 1h 15m · US
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.


Sorority House
1939 · 1h 4m · US
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.


Twelve Crowded Hours
1939 · 1h 4m · US
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.


Pacific Liner
1939 · 1h 16m · US
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings an immediate conflict between the two men. When an epidemic breaks out below decks, Craig tells McKay the engine-and-fire rooms must be put under quarantine, but all of Craig's efforts to keep the disease from spreading are opposed by McKay.


Annabel Takes a Tour
1938 · 1h 7m · US
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.


Sky Giant
1938 · 1h 20m
Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy. Complications arise when Stockton's son Kenneth arrives for training and Stockton, believing his son to be a slackard, looks for an excuse to drop him from the program. Rivalry develops between Stag and Ken as well, as they fall for the same girl.


The Saint in New York
1938 · 1h 9m · US
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.


This Marriage Business
1938 · 1h 11m · US
A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.


Night Spot
1938 · 1h · US
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.


Crashing Hollywood
1938 · 1h 1m · US
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.


Living on Love
1937 · 1h 1m · US
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.


The Last of the Mohicans
1936 · 1h 31m · US
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.


Secret of the Chateau
1934 · 1h 6m · US
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.


Hide-Out
1930 · 59m
A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and the most popular man on campus.


Hell's Heroes
1929 · 1h 8m · US
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).


The Love Trap
1929 · 1h 11m · US
A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.


The Border Patrol
1928 · 50m · US
Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be working there and, on the way, gives a ride to New York socialite Beverly Dix, whose car has been wrecked on the road to El Paso. Bill quickly comes to suspect Earl Hanway and Lefty Waterman of passing bad bills; taking Beverly's father into his confidence, Bill identifies the counterfeiting plant, arrests Hanway and Waterman, and finds himself with his arms full of Beverly.


The Michigan Kid
1928 · 1h 4m · US
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.


The Wild West Show
1928 · 1h · US
"Rodeo" Bill is a hard-nosed, fun-loving cowboy who likes a lot of action and will go out of his way to create some if things are going too dull to suit him. He attends a circus/wild west show and stirs up some trouble with both the locals and the troupers but, after seeing Ruth Henson, the daughter of the show's operator/owner, he decides to join up and travel with the circus. He also manges to take care of some trouble not of his doing.


Silk Hosiery
1920 · 50m · US
In a prologue, as a woman pages through a book, male figures, including a musketeer, a cowboy, a swordsman and a military officer, appear and bow. In the main story, the visit of Prince Ferdinandi sends New York society ladies scurrying to purchase gowns for the upcoming ball. The woman seen earlier looking longingly at the book, model Marjorie Bowen, fights off the advances of Cadwallader Smith, who accompanies a patron. When handsome Sir Derwain Leeds, the prince's aide-de-camp, arrives to see his fiancée Yvette Fernau outfitted, Marjorie exchanges a shy smile with him.
Her Husband's Friend
Her Husband's Friend
1920 · 50m · US
Princeton Hadley feels obligated to pay alimony to Judith, the widow of his deceased friend Billy Westover, due to favors Billy had done for him in the past, even though the law doesn't require it. Billy had lost his fortune and was recently divorced from Judith before his untimely death in an accident. Princeton later meets Judith, unaware of her identity, and falls in love with her.


The Jailbird
1920 · 50m · US
Shakespeare Clancy is a jailbird who walks out with a crowd of visitors about the time "Skeeter" Burns, the prison printer, is discharged. Learning that a legacy awaits them in Dodson, the pair depart for the small Western town. Discovering that the bequest consists of a failing county newspaper and a plot of barren land, they hatch a plan to fleece the townspeople by selling shares in a bogus oil well. Problems arise when Clancy falls in love with society editor Alice Whitney. Clancy is conflicted but then they do strike oil! Concluding that his destiny is to be an honest man, Clancy returns to jail to finish serving his term. Slipping into the crowd of visitors, he dons his prison clothes and resumes work as though nothing had happened.