Ferris Webster

Infobox Actor
name = Ferris Webster
birthdate = birth date|1912|4|29
birthplace = Washington, D.C.
deathdate = death date and age|1989|2|4|1912|4|29
deathplace = San Luis Obispo, California
occupation = Film editor
yearsactive = 1939 - 1982

Ferris Webster (April 29 1912 – February 4 1989), an American film editor, was nominated for Academy Awards for his work on "Blackboard Jungle" (1955), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), and "The Great Escape" (1963).

Webster edited seventy-two films, including six for director Vincente Minnelli: "Undercurrent" (1946), "Madame Bovary" (1949), "Father of the Bride" (1950), "Father's Little Dividend" (1951), "The Long, Long Trailer" (1954), and "Tea and Sympathy" (1956).

In the late 1950s, Webster began editing films for the directors John Sturges and John Frankenheimer. The film critic Bruce Eder has commented, "If ever a film editor deserved public recognition in the 1960s, it was Ferris Webster."Eder, Bruce (undated). [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:116189~T1 "Ferris Webster"] , webpage of the "Allmovie" website, retrieved 2008-06-14.] In a notable collaboration, Webster edited fifteen films for director John Sturges, including "The Law and Jake Wade" (1958), "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), and "The Great Escape" (1963). Webster edited the three films of director John Frankenheimer's "paranoia trilogy": "The Manchurian Candidate", "Seven Days in May" (1964), and "Seconds" (1966). Frankenheimer cast Webster in his only appearance as a film actor, as Gen. Bernard "Barney" Rutkowski in "Seven Days in May".

Webster edited eight films for director Clint Eastwood: "Breezy" and "High Plains Drifter" (both 1973), "The Eiger Sanction" (1975), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "The Gauntlet" (1977), "Bronco Billy" (1980), and "Firefox" and "Honkytonk Man" (both 1982).

Additional credits include "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945), "Lili" (1953), "Forbidden Planet" (1956), "Les Girls" (1957), "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958), "Divorce American Style" (1967), and "Ice Station Zebra" (1968).

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