Known for Editing
Born
January 21, 1903
Died
March 18, 1974 (age 71)
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Filmography
72 films


Bless the Beasts & Children
1971 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.


R.P.M.
1970 · 1h 32m
country: United States
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.


The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970 · 2h 19m
country: United States
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.


Barefoot in the Park
1967 · 1h 46m
country: United States
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.


Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.


Lord Love a Duck
1966 · 1h 45m
country: United States
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.


Major Dundee
1965 · 2h 5m
country: United States
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.


The Young Lovers
1964 · 1h 49m
country: United States
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.


Gidget Goes to Rome
1963 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.


The Man from the Diners' Club
1963 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Meek credit card company clerk Ernest Klenk is feeling the pressure of demanding coworkers, new computers, and an upcoming wedding. This stress leads to a big mistake -- the accidental approval of a credit card for mobster Foots Pulardos, who is planning to flee to Mexico with his girlfriend, Sugar Pye, to avoid criminal charges. When Klenk tries to fix his mix-up, he gets dangerously involved in Foots' scheme.


Diamond Head
1962 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.


Five Finger Exercise
1962 · 1h 49m
country: United States
The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.


A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · 2h 8m
country: United States
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.


Song Without End
1960 · 2h 21m
country: United States
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.


They Came to Cordura
1959 · 2h 3m
country: United States
An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.


Gidget
1959 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie.


Me and the Colonel
1958 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews. They are soon joined by Prokoszny's bride-to-be, Suzanne, who takes an immediate liking to the engaging Jacobowsky. This furthers the hostility between Jacobowsky and Prokoszny, but they must put their differences aside to evade the Nazis trailing them.


Quiz Whizz
1958 · 16m
country: United States
Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his winnings by some con men. When the stooges go to recover his money, the bad guys convince them that they can get rich by posing as children and becoming the wards of a millionaire. The boys go along with the plan, not realizing that the "millionaire" and his pretty niece are in on the scam and are planning to knock them off. The stooges foil the plan and recover Joe's money.


Cowboy
1958 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...


The Hard Man
1957 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.


Horsing Around
1957 · 16m
country: United States
A sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", The stooges are taking care of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus horse, is about to be destroyed, they got to the circus grounds to rescue him. The stooges are successful, and Birdie and Schnapps are reunited.


The Garment Jungle
1957 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.


The Shadow on the Window
1957 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?


Nightfall
1956 · 1h 19m
country: United States
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.


Storm Center
1956 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist.


Picnic
1955 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.


Count Three and Pray
1955 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.


The Man from Laramie
1955 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.


The Long Gray Line
1955 · 2h 18m
country: United States
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.


Human Desire
1954 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train.


The Caine Mutiny
1954 · 2h 4m
country: United States
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.


From Here to Eternity
1953 · 1h 58m
country: United States
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.


Fort Ti
1953 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this juncture, however, Major Rogers is more concerned with helping the British forces at Fort Ticonderoga during a series of French and Indian raids. Fort Ti was filmed in 3D, and in typical William Castle fashion the stereoscopic gimmick is exploited to the hilt.


The Member of the Wedding
1952 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.


The Happy Time
1952 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.


Death of a Salesman
1951 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.


Ten Tall Men
1951 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla, a girl from a rival tribe, in order to build a coalition against the French, Kincaid kidnaps Mahla. Hussin forcefully takes her back, but by now his planned attack on Tarfa is crumbling and Mahla has begun to fall in love with Kincaid.


Saturday's Hero
1951 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.


The Fuller Brush Girl
1950 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.


No Sad Songs for Me
1950 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.


Cargo to Capetown
1950 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A sailor and his captain fight over a beautiful girl.


The Walking Hills
1949 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.


To the Ends of the Earth
1948 · 1h 49m
country: United States
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.


The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.


Mr. District Attorney
1947 · 1h 21m
country: United States
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.


The Jolson Story
1946 · 2h 8m
country: United States
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his way up through the vaudeville ranks, Asa — now calling himself Al Jolson — joins a blackface minstrel troupe and soon builds a reputation as a consummate performer. But as his career grows in size, so does his ego, resulting in battles in business as well as in his personal life.


You Were Never Lovelier
1942 · 1h 37m
country: United States
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.


Submarine Raider
1942 · 1h 4m
country: United States
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.


Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).


Texas
1941 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.


Sweetheart of the Campus
1941 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.


Arizona
1940 · 2h 5m
country: United States
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.


Too Many Husbands
1940 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.


My Son Is Guilty
1939 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.


The Man They Could Not Hang
1939 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.


South of Arizona
1938 · 56m
country: United States
Kenyon has the newly arriving Ranger shot and his man Martin assume the Ranger's identity. Clay finds the Ranger before he dies and learns the truth. But when Clay confronts Martin, Martin convinces the townspeople he is a real Ranger and Clay is the murderer. Clay escapes and must now find a way to expose Martin as a fake.


West of Cheyenne
1938 · 59m
country: United States
Brad Buckner has just bought a ranch. Murdock keeps his rustled cattle on the ranch and sends his men to kill Buckner just as they did the previous owners. But Buckner and his men foil their attempts and decide to search the ranch. To throw Buckner off he kidnaps Buckner's girlfriend and the Sheriff and makes plans to drive the cattle across the border.


Call of the Rockies
1938 · 54m
country: United States
Unable to pay her notes, Ann Bradford, owner of the Circle C, decides to auction off a half-interest in her ranch. Matt Stark, a crooked land dealer, holds Ann's notes. His efforts to buy the ranch have been refused and his instructs his henchman, Barlow, and his other henchmen to make certain that nobody bids on the ranch. Clint Buckley rides into town on the day of the auction, overhears Stark's instructions to his henchies, and decides to attend the sale. Barlow attempts to intimidate him, they fight, Buckley wins and his bid of $25,000 wins him a half-interest in the Circle C. But, Stark, isn't finished yet in his efforts to get the ranch, especially since a couple of his hirelings are on the Circle C payroll.


One Man Justice
1937 · 59m
country: United States
Larry Clarke rides into the town of Mesa, Arizona, from Texas, where he has just sold his ranch. Several people call him "Ted Crockett",who supposedly has been dead for five years, and a bartender advises him to say he is Crockett, as he can aid the law abiding citizens that way. Both Red Grindy, leader of the town's badmen, and Sheriff Ben Adams are fooled by Larry's resemblence to Crockett, as is Crockett's young widow, Mary, until Larry convinces her his isn't. He finds that all of the Crockett cowhands, with the exception of Neal King, are systematically rustling Mary's cattle. Larry takes charge, sends to Texas for his riders and then brings to an end the reign of terror Grindy and his men have over the territory. Creased in the head by a gunshot, Larry is freed of his amnesia and turns out to actually be Ted Crockett.


Two-Fisted Sheriff
1937 · 1h
country: United States
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.


Find the Witness
1937 · 55m
country: United States
A newspaper reporter covering a famous magician's eroding marriage must later prove that the subject was responsible for his wife's murder.


Slippery Silks
1936 · 18m
country: United States
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.


Code of the Range
1936 · 55m
country: United States
Ford Beebe's "original screenplay" (he had used it before) finds the cattlemen, headed by "Calamity" Parker, opposing the use of their rangelands by sheepherders, with cattlemen Lee Jamison and Ed Randall in the dissenting minority and they offer sheepman Angus McLeod free grazing privileges. Saloon owner Barney Ross offers to keep the sheepmen off of the range and out of town if each cattleman will pay $500.


Alibi for Murder
1936 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.


A Pain in the Pullman
1936 · 20m
country: United States
The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.


Disorder in the Court
1936 · 17m
country: United States
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.


Movie Maniacs
1936 · 18m
country: United States
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.


Ants in the Pantry
1936 · 17m
country: United States
The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.


Three Little Beers
1935 · 17m
country: United States
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.
His Bridal Sweet
His Bridal Sweet
1935 · 18m
country: United States
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.


Restless Knights
1935 · 17m
country: United States
Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
In the Dog House
In the Dog House
1934 · 18m
country: United States
Andy remarries, but his new wife has no use for either his son or his dog.