Harry W. Gerstad
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Harry W. Gerstad (June 11, 1909 - July 17, 2002) was a film editor that sometimes directed films. The Academy Award-winning editor also worked on television. He edited as well as directed for the 1950s program Adventures of Superman. In the 1960s he worked for Bing Crosby productions and Batjac Productions. Gerstad retired to Palm Springs, Florida in 1973.
Gerstad's editing work included films The Spiral Staircase (1946), Crossfire (1947), Rocketship X-M (1950), Batman (1966), The War Wagon (1967) and Walking Tall (1973).
He won Oscars for the boxing drama "Champion" in 1949 and for Fred Zinnemann's seminal Western "High Noon" in 1952.
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