Director

Harold F. Kress

Editing

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 0All crew credits: 60

TMDB ID: 7510

IMDb ID: nm0470932

Known for: Editing

Born: June 26, 1913

Died: September 18, 1999

Age: 86

Place of birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1939 - 1978

Years active: 40

Average TMDB rating: 6.24

Wikidata: Q325190

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Director (5)Editor (53)Associate Producer (1)Supervising Film Editor (1)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harold F. Kress (June 26, 1913 – September 18, 1999) was an American film editor with more than fifty feature film credits; he also directed several feature films in the early 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for How the West Was Won (1962) and again for The Towering Inferno (1974), and was nominated for four additional films; he is among the film editors most recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He also worked publicly to increase the recognition of editing as a component of Hollywood filmmaking.

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