Director

George Amy

Editing

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 60

TMDB ID: 18800

IMDb ID: nm0025497

Known for: Editing

Born: October 15, 1903

Died: December 18, 1986

Age: 83

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1925 - 1955

Years active: 31

Average TMDB rating: 6.59

Wikidata: Q1255794

Also known as

George J. Amy

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Director (6)Second Unit Director (1)Editor (50)Associate Producer (2)Supervising Editor (1)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Joseph Amy (October 15, 1903 – December 18, 1986) started his career aged 17 as an American film editor, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s. It was Amy's editing that was one of the main reasons Warners' films got their reputation for their fluid style and breakneck pace. He was a favorite of such top Warners directors as Michael Curtiz and Howard Hawks, and won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Hawks' Air Force (1943). He received Oscar nominations for Curtiz's Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 and Raoul Walsh's fanciful war film Objective, Burma! in 1945. Although Amy directed several shorts and a few features (including She Had to Say Yes) on his own for Warners, they didn't meet with much success. In the 1950s he turned to editing and directing for television.

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