Ferris Webster
Ferris Webster | |
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Born | Ferris Maynard Webster April 29, 1912 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Died | February 4, 1989 | (aged 76)
Occupation | Film editor |
Years active | 1939–1982 |
Ferris Maynard Webster (April 29, 1912 – February 4, 1989)[1] was an American film editor with approximately seventy-two film credits. He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for his work on Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Great Escape (1963).[2]
Webster was raised in the
Bruce Eder has written, "If ever a film editor deserved public recognition in the 1960s, it was Ferris Webster."[3] Webster edited the three films of director John Frankenheimer's "paranoia trilogy": The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), and Seconds (1966). Eder writes that The Manchurian Candidate was "the editor's magnum opus. The shooting, cutting, and intercutting of one extended brainwashing sequence, seen from multiple points-of-view, is still striking decades later, and the movie earned Webster his second Academy Award nomination." Frankenheimer cast Webster in his only appearance as a film actor, as Air Force Gen. Bernard "Barney" Rutkowski in Seven Days in May.[3]
Webster was nominated for an Academy Award for the editing of
Joe Kidd starred Clint Eastwood. In the last phase of his career, Webster edited and co-edited eight films that were directed by Eastwood, starting with High Plains Drifter (1973), which was Eastwood's second film as a director. Webster edited Breezy (1973), The Eiger Sanction (1975), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Bronco Billy (1980), Firefox and Honkytonk Man (both 1982). These latter two films with Eastwood concluded Webster's career as an editor, apparently after a falling-out between the two men.[6]
Additional credits include The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Lili (1953), Forbidden Planet (1956), Les Girls (1957), Divorce American Style (1967).
See also
References
- ^ Birth and death dates and place-of-death obtained from a search of the Social Security Death Index.
- IMDb
- ^ Allmovie. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-3583-2.
- All-Americanat 880 yards.
- ISBN 978-0-312-29032-0.