Harold F. Kress

Birthday: 1913-06-26
Deathday: 1999-09-18
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Male

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Harold F. Kress (June 26, 1913 – September 18, 1999) was an American film editor with more than fifty feature film credits; he also directed several feature films in the early 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for How the West Was Won (1962) and again for The Towering Inferno (1974), and was nominated for four additional films; he is among the film editors most recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He also worked publicly to increase the recognition of editing as a component of Hollywood filmmaking.

Credits

Year Title
1952-09-25 Apache War Smoke
1951-06-15 No Questions Asked
1951-05-04 The Painted Hills
1945-11-03 Purity Squad
1945-03-29 Watchtower Over Tomorrow