Biography
Oswald Eduard Hafenrichter (10 April 1899 – 18 May 1973) was an Austrian-British film editor with more than seventy feature film credits. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for The Third Man (1949). He has been called "one of the most important foreign editors to have worked in Britain." Hafenrichter was born to George and Friedericka Hafenrichter in Oplotniz, Duchy of Styria (today Oplotnica, Slovenia). In the first half of the 1920s, he studied medicine in Graz and Vienna then moved to Berlin, where he became an editor at UFA GmbH in 1926.A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), Hafenrichter fell under the radar of the Nazi Party in the 1930s, when he was arrested multiple times. He moved to Vienna, where he met the Italian director and producer Carmine Gallone. He worked on his film Al sole (1936) in Austria, and then followed him back to Italy. He edited ten of Gallone's films, remaining in Rome until 1940, when he fled first to France and then the United Kingdom. Allowed in as a communist refugee from the Nazis, he worked for the Ministry of Information editing propaganda films.He joined Sir Alexander Korda's London Films after the war, when foreigners were again allowed to work in feature films, and also worked for Carol Reed. His post-war films included An Ideal Husband (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), and The Third Man (1949), receiving a nomination for Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the latter at the 23rd Academy Awards.In 1950, Hafenrichter edited the first of more than 20 Brazilian films, mostly for the Vera Cruz production company. He returned to England in 1957, and then alternated between Italy and England for the rest of his career, which ended with his death in 1973. He had been editing a series of Hammer horror films.
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The Vault of Horror (1973)
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Trog (1970)
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
Danger Route (1967)
The Deadly Bees (1966)
The Trygon Factor (1966)
The Psychopath (1966)
The Skull (1965)
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Traitor's Gate (1964)
Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
Out of the Fog (1962)
The Happy Thieves (1961)
Enter Inspector Duval (1961)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
Jet Storm (1959)
Law and Disorder (1958)
Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957)
O Capanga (1957)
O Sobrado (1956)
A Estrada (1955)
É Proibido Beijar (1954)
Candinho (1954)
Road to Crime (1954)
Luz Apagada (1953)
The Landowner's Daughter (1953)
Uma Pulga na Balança (1953)
The Bandit (1953)
Veneno (1952)
Sai da Frente (1952)
Tico-Tico no Fubá (1952)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
The Third Man (1949)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
An Ideal Husband (1947)
Amami, Alfredo! (1940)
Manon Lescaut (1940)
Beyond Love (1940)
The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
Mother Song (1937)
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
Opernring (1936)
Hot Blood (1936)
Liebeslied (1935)
Der grüne Domino (1935)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
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Known ForEditing
GenderMale
Birthday1899-04-10
Deathday1973-05-18 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceOplotnica Municipality, Slovenia
CitizenshipsAustria
Also Known AsOsvaldo Hafenrichter
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