Ralph E. Winters
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Ralph E. Winters (June 17, 1909 - February 26, 2004), born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.
After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 40s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first "big" film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller Gaslight in 1944.
Winters is the winner of two Academy Awards (for King Solomon's Mines in 1950 and Ben-Hur in 1959) and four other nominations (for Quo Vadis in 1951, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954, The Great Race in 1965 and Kotch in 1971). Winters also cut together such leading films as On the Town (1949), High Society (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
He was Blake Edwards' editor on twelve films made over twenty years, from The Pink Panther (1963) to Micki + Maude (1984). Some of the other films on which they worked together were The Party (1968), 10 (1979) and Victor/Victoria (1982).[1]
His last film was the ill-fated pirate epic Cutthroat Island in 1995.
In 1991, Winters received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. In 2001, Winters published his memoir, Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor.[2]
[edit] External links and references
- ^ "Ralph Winters, Film Editor, 94; Did Ben Hur", The New York Times March 12, 2004. Webpage retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ^ Winters, Ralph E. (2001). Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor (Scarecrow Press) ISBN 978-0810840249.
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