William Lyon (film editor)

American film editor

William Lyon

Born| January 21, 1903

Texas, United States

Died| March 18, 1974

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation| Film editor

William Austin Lyon (January 21, 1903 – March 18, 1974) was an American film editor, from 1934 to 1971. He was born in Texas, and died in Los Angeles. Employed by Columbia Pictures for most of his career, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing six times, and won twice, for From Here to Eternity (1953)[1] and Picnic (1955).

## Selected filmography

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William Lyon began his career as an editor. Based on Lyon's filmography at the Internet Movie Database.

Editor  Year  | Film  | Director  | Notes  | Other notes  | Ref.

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1936  | Alibi for Murder | D. Ross Lederman | First collaboration with D. Ross Lederman  |  |
Code of the Range | Charles C. Coleman | First collaboration with Charles C. Coleman  |  |
The Cowboy Star | David Selman | First collaboration with David Selman  |  |
1937  | Find the Witness | Second collaboration with David Selman  |  |
Trapped | Leon Barsha | First collaboration with Leon Barsha  |  |
Two Gun Law | Second collaboration with Leon Barsha  |  |
Two-Fisted Sheriff | Third collaboration with Leon Barsha  |  |
One Man Justice | Fourth collaboration with Leon Barsha  |  |
The Old Wyoming Trail | Folmar Blangsted |  |  |
I'll Take Romance | Edward H. Griffith |  |  |
Outlaws of the Prairie | Sam Nelson | First collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
1938  | Call of the Rockies | Alan James |  |  |
West of Cheyenne | Sam Nelson  | Second collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
South of Arizona | Third collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
The Colorado Trail | Fourth collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
West of the Santa Fe | Fifth collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
Rio Grande | Sixth collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
1939  | The Thundering West | Seventh collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
Texas Stampede | Eighth collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
North of the Yukon | Ninth collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
Spoilers of the Range | Charles C. Coleman  | Second collaboration with Charles C. Coleman  |  |
Western Caravans | Sam Nelson  | Tenth collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
The Man from Sundown | Eleventh collaboration with Sam Nelson  |  |
The Man They Could Not Hang | Nick Grinde | First collaboration with Nick Grinde  |  |
Riders of Black River | Norman Deming  |  |  |
Scandal Sheet | Nick Grinde  | Second collaboration with Nick Grinde  |  |
My Son Is Guilty | Charles Barton | First collaboration with Charles Barton  |  |
1940  | Too Many Husbands | Wesley Ruggles | First collaboration with Wesley Ruggles  |  |
Arizona | Second collaboration with Wesley Ruggles  |  |
The Phantom Submarine | Charles Barton  | Second collaboration with Charles Barton  |  |
1941  | Naval Academy | Erle C. Kenton |  |  |
Sweetheart of the Campus | Edward Dmytryk | First collaboration with Edward Dmytryk  |  |
Texas | George Marshall |  |  |
Harvard, Here I Come | Lew Landers | First collaboration with Lew Landers  |  |
1942  | Lawless Plainsmen | William Berke |  |  |
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp | Charles Barton  | Third collaboration with Charles Barton  |  |
Submarine Raider | Lew Landers  | Second collaboration with Lew Landers  |  |
Sabotage Squad | Third collaboration with Lew Landers  |  |
You Were Never Lovelier | William A. Seiter |  |  |
1946  | The Jolson Story | Alfred E. Green |  |  |
1947  | The Lone Wolf in Mexico | D. Ross Lederman  | Second collaboration with D. Ross Lederman  |  |
Mr. District Attorney | Robert B. Sinclair |  |  |
The Guilt of Janet Ames | Henry Levin | First collaboration with Henry Levin  |

Uncredited

1948  | To the Ends of the Earth | Robert Stevenson |  |  |
1949  | The Walking Hills | John Sturges |  |  |
Jolson Sings Again | Henry Levin  | Second collaboration with Henry Levin  |  |
1950  | Cargo to Capetown | Earl McEvoy  |  |  |
No Sad Songs for Me | Rudolph Maté |  |  |
The Fuller Brush Girl | Lloyd Bacon |  |  |
1951  | Saturday's Hero | David Miller | First collaboration with David Miller  |  |
Ten Tall Men | Willis Goldbeck |  |  |
Death of a Salesman | László Benedek |  |  |
1952  | Thief of Damascus | Will Jason |  |  |
The Happy Time | Richard Fleischer |  |  |
The Member of the Wedding | Fred Zinnemann | First collaboration with Fred Zinnemann  |  |
1953  | Fort Ti | William Castle | First collaboration with William Castle  |  |
The 49th Man | Fred F. Sears |  |  |
From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann  | Second collaboration with Fred Zinnemann  |  |
Slaves of Babylon | William Castle  | Second collaboration with William Castle  |  |
1954  | The Caine Mutiny | Edward Dmytryk  | Second collaboration with Edward Dmytryk  |  |
1955  | The Long Gray Line | John Ford |  |  |
The Man from Laramie | Anthony Mann |  |  |
Count Three and Pray | George Sherman | First collaboration with George Sherman  |  |
Picnic | Joshua Logan |  |  |
1956  | Storm Center | Daniel Taradash |  |  |
Nightfall | Jacques Tourneur |  |  |
1957  | The Shadow on the Window | William Asher |  |  |
The Garment Jungle | Vincent Sherman |  |  |
The Hard Man | George Sherman  | Second collaboration with George Sherman  |  |
1958  | Cowboy | Delmer Daves |  |  |
Me and the Colonel | Peter Glenville |  |  |
1959  | Gidget | Paul Wendkos | First collaboration with Paul Wendkos  |  |
They Came to Cordura | Robert Rossen |  |  |
1960  | Song Without End | Charles Vidor |  |  |
Midnight Lace | David Miller  | Second collaboration with David Miller  |

Uncredited

1961  | A Raisin in the Sun | Daniel Petrie |  |  |
Gidget Goes Hawaiian | Paul Wendkos  | Second collaboration with Paul Wendkos  |  |
Sail a Crooked Ship | Irving Brecher |  |  |
1962  | Five Finger Exercise | Daniel Mann |  |  |
Diamond Head | Guy Green |  |  |
1963  | The Man from the Diners' Club | Frank Tashlin |  |  |
Gidget Goes to Rome | Paul Wendkos  | Third collaboration with Paul Wendkos  |  |
1964  | The Young Lovers | Samuel Goldwyn Jr. |  |  |
1965  | Major Dundee | Sam Peckinpah |  |  |
1966  | Lord Love a Duck | George Axelrod |  |  |
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Bernard Girard |  |  |
1967  | Barefoot in the Park | Gene Saks |  |  |
1969  | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Stanley Kramer | First collaboration with Stanley Kramer  |  | [2]
1970  | R. P. M. | Second collaboration with Stanley Kramer  |  |
1971  | Bless the Beasts and Children | Third collaboration with Stanley Kramer  |  |

Documentaries
Editor  Year  | Film  | Director  | Notes

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1943  | Divide and Conquer |

* Frank Capra
* Anatole Litvak

Uncredited

Shorts
Editor  Year  | Film  | Director

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1934  | In the Dog House | Arthur Ripley
1935  | Restless Knights | Charles Lamont
His Bridal Sweet | Alfred J. Goulding
Three Little Beers | Del Lord
1936  | Unrelated Relations
Ants in the Pantry | Preston Black
Movie Maniacs | Del Lord
The Peppery Salt
Disorder in the Court | Preston Black
A Pain in the Pullman
Mister Smarty
Fibbing Fibbers
Slippery Silks
1957  | Horsing Around | Jules White
1958  | Quiz Whizz

TV series
Editor  Year  | Title  | Notes

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1952  | Cavalcade of America | 1 episode

## References

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1. ^ "1954 Oscars". Retrieved April 20, 2019.
2. ^ "The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 28, 2022.

## External links

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* William Lyon at IMDb

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

1934–1950|

* Conrad A. Nervig (1934)
* Ralph Dawson (1935)
* Ralph Dawson (1936)
* Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937)
* Ralph Dawson (1938)
* Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939)
* Anne Bauchens (1940)
* William Holmes (1941)
* Daniel Mandell (1942)
* George Amy (1943)
* Barbara McLean (1944)
* Robert J. Kern (1945)
* Daniel Mandell (1946)
* Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947)
* Paul Weatherwax (1948)
* Harry W. Gerstad (1949)
* Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)

1951–1975|

* William Hornbeck (1951)
* Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952)
* William Lyon (1953)
* Gene Milford (1954)
* Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955)
* Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956)
* Peter Taylor (1957)
* Adrienne Fazan (1958)
* Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959)
* Daniel Mandell (1960)
* Thomas Stanford (1961)
* Anne V. Coates (1962)
* Harold F. Kress (1963)
* Cotton Warburton (1964)
* William Reynolds (1965)
* Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo (1966)
* Hal Ashby (1967)
* Frank P. Keller (1968)
* Françoise Bonnot (1969)
* Hugh S. Fowler (1970)
* Gerald B. Greenberg (1971)
* David Bretherton (1972)
* William Reynolds (1973)
* Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974)
* Verna Fields (1975)

1976–2000|

* Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976)
* Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977)
* Peter Zinner (1978)
* Alan Heim (1979)
* Thelma Schoonmaker (1980)
* Michael Kahn (1981)
* John Bloom (1982)
* Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983)
* Jim Clark (1984)
* Thom Noble (1985)
* Claire Simpson (1986)
* Gabriella Cristiani (1987)
* Arthur Schmidt (1988)
* David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989)
* Neil Travis (1990)
* Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991)
* Joel Cox (1992)
* Michael Kahn (1993)
* Arthur Schmidt (1994)
* Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995)
* Walter Murch (1996)
* Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997)
* Michael Kahn (1998)
* Zach Staenberg (1999)
* Stephen Mirrione (2000)

2001–present|

* Pietro Scalia (2001)
* Martin Walsh (2002)
* Jamie Selkirk (2003)
* Thelma Schoonmaker (2004)
* Hughes Winborne (2005)
* Thelma Schoonmaker (2006)
* Christopher Rouse (2007)
* Chris Dickens (2008)
* Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
* Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010)
* Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2011)
* William Goldenberg (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
* Tom Cross (2014)
* Margaret Sixel (2015)
* John Gilbert (2016)
* Lee Smith (2017)
* John Ottman (2018)
* Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019)
* Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020)
* Joe Walker (2021)
* Paul Rogers (2022)
* Jennifer Lame (2023)
* Sean Baker (2024)

* Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999

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* Germany
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People|

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* Yale LUX

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