Biography
Frederic Knudtson (April 9, 1906 in North Dakota – February 15, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964. He received six nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, including five in the six years preceding his death. His first credit was as an assistant editor on the 1932 film What Price Hollywood?. He then edited a string of B-movies throughout the 1930s and 1940s, picking up his first Oscar nomination in 1949 for the dark thriller The Window (directed by Ted Tetzlaff).His professional relationship with director Stanley Kramer began in 1955, which yielded his most prolific work and garnered him five more Academy Awards nominations: The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
Filmography
all 71
Movies 71
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Pressure Point (1962)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Posse from Hell (1961)
The Great Impostor (1960)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
On the Beach (1959)
Cry Tough (1959)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
The Man Who Died Twice (1958)
The Notorious Mr. Monks (1958)
Gunfire at Indian Gap (1957)
The Crooked Circle (1957)
The Pride and the Passion (1957)
Run for the Sun (1956)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
Son of Sinbad (1955)
Underwater! (1955)
Angel Face (1953)
The Las Vegas Story (1952)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
Born to Be Bad (1950)
A Dangerous Profession (1949)
Bride for Sale (1949)
Strange Bargain (1949)
Easy Living (1949)
The Window (1949)
Station West (1948)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
This Land Is Mine (1943)
Thundering Hoofs (1942)
Come on Danger (1942)
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Land of the Open Range (1942)
Dude Cowboy (1941)
The Bandit Trail (1941)
Six-Gun Gold (1941)
Cyclone on Horseback (1941)
Along the Rio Grande (1941)
The Fargo Kid (1940)
Triple Justice (1940)
Stage to Chino (1940)
Prairie Law (1940)
Bullet Code (1940)
The Marines Fly High (1940)
Legion of the Lawless (1940)
The Marshal Of Mesa City (1939)
The Wrong Room (1939)
The Fighting Gringo (1939)
Timber Stampede (1939)
Racketeers of the Range (1939)
The Rookie Cop (1939)
Trouble in Sundown (1939)
Arizona Legion (1939)
Lawless Valley (1938)
The Renegade Ranger (1938)
Painted Desert (1938)
Border G-Man (1938)
Gun Law (1938)
She's Got Everything (1937)
Saturday's Heroes (1937)
The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
The Big Game (1936)
Hi, Gaucho! (1935)
The Silver Streak (1934)
I Can't Escape (1934)
Cross Fire (1933)
Son of the Border (1933)
Scarlet River (1933)
Lucky Devils (1933)
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Known ForEditing
GenderMale
Birthday1906-04-09
Deathday1964-02-15 (57 years old)
Birth PlaceNorth Dakota, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsFred Knudtson, Fred Kundtson
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