Lloyd Nosler
Lloyd Nosler | |
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Born | Lloyd Leonard Nosler March 13, 1901 Riverton, Oregon, USA |
Died | September 26, 1985 (aged 84) Hanford, California, USA |
Occupation | Film editor, film director |
Spouse(s) | Roberta Fulenwider (m. 1927) Olivia Winter (m. 1951) |
Lloyd Nosler (March 13, 1901 – September 26, 1985) was an American film editor, director, and screenwriter who worked in Hollywood in from the 1910s through the 1950s.[1][2]
Biography[]
Lloyd was born in Riverton, Oregon, to Charles Nosler and Ida Belle Wright. He left school at the age of 14, and worked for a time as a paperboy for The Spokesman Review.
He later took on a job as an office boy at Universal Studios after his family relocated to Los Angeles. In 1918, he was given a promotion to the photography department, where he cut his teeth editing . The next year, after editing , he became specifically renowned for cutting action films after catching the eye of Tom Mix.[3] Work on films like Ben Hur followed at MGM; the studio kept him under contract for seven years.[3]
In 1937, he went back to school, compelled by a desire to change careers and pursue screenwriting.[3] During World War II, however, he used his editing skills to cut more than 200 service films while serving as a briefing officer in the U.S. Air Force.[3]
Selected filmography[]
As editor:
- Pot o' Gold (1941)
- The River (1938)
- The Hurricane (1937)
- Slave Ship (1937)
- Everybody's Old Man (1936)
- Blood Money (1933)
- Reaching for the Moon (1930)
- The Eyes of the World (1930)
- Hell Harbor (1930)
- She Goes to War (1929)
- The Shakedown (1929)
- Flesh and the Devil (1926)
- The Temptress (1926)
- Blarney (1926)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
- The Silent Accuser (1924)
- The Red Lily (1924)
- Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
- Strangers of the Night (1923)
- The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923)
- The Great Air Robbery (1919)
As screenwriter:
- Western Trails (1938)
- The Dawn Rider (1935)
As director:
- Son of the Border (1933)
- Single-Handed Sanders (1932)
References[]
- ^ LoBrutto, Vincent (2012). The Art of Motion Picture Editing. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN 978-1-58115-881-6.
- ^ Soares, André (2010-04-19). Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-458-4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Ragan, David (26 Feb 1950). "He Shaped His Hollywood Career with Shears". The Semi-Weekly Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- American film editors
- 1901 births
- 1985 deaths
- People from Oregon
- American film directors
- 20th-century American screenwriters