Ferris Webster

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Ferris Webster (April 29, 1912 – February 4, 1989), an American film editor, was nominated for Academy Awards for his work on Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Great Escape (1963).

Webster edited seventy-two films, including six for director Vincente Minnelli: Undercurrent (1946), Madame Bovary (1949), Father of the Bride (1950), Father's Little Dividend (1951), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), and Tea and Sympathy (1956).

Webster edited fifteen films for director John Sturges, including The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Law and Jake Wade, and The Great Escape.

Webster edited the three films of director John Frankenheimer's "paranoia trilogy": The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May (1964), and Seconds (1966). Frankenheimer cast Webster in his only appearance as a film actor, as Gen. Bernard "Barney" Rutkowski in Seven Days in May.

Webster edited eight films for director Clint Eastwood: Breezy and High Plains Drifter (both 1973), The Eiger Sanction (1975), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Bronco Billy (1980), and Firefox and Honkytonk Man (both 1982).