Frederic Knudtson
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Frederic Knudtson (1906 – 1964) was a film editor whose career stretched from 1932 until his sudden death in 1964, which came at the peak of his career, having racked up five Academy Award nominations in six years.
His first credit was as an assistant editor on the 1932 film What Price Hollywood?. He then edited a string of B-movies throughout the 1930s and '40s, picking up his first Oscar nomination for the dark thriller The Window in 1949.
His productive association with Stanley Kramer began in 1955 and yielded his greatest work[citation needed]: The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
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