Frederic Knudtson

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| name = Frederic Knudtson

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|4|9}}

| birth_place = North Dakota

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|2|15|1906|4|9}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California

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| occupation = Film Editor

| yearsactive = 1932 - 1963

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Frederic Knudtson (April 9, 1906 – February 15, 1964) 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.

Biography

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).{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1950 |title=The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=May 22, 2019 |publisher=Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093814/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/22nd-winners.html |archivedate=6 July 2011 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch?action=searchLink&displayType=1&BSFromYear=22 |title=The Official Academy Awards® Database |access-date=May 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707141343/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch?action=searchLink&displayType=1&BSFromYear=22 |archive-date=2012-07-07 |url-status=dead }}

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),{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1959 |title=The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=2011-08-21 |work=oscars.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094137/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/31st-winners.html |archivedate=6 July 2011 |url-status=live }} On the Beach (1959),{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960 |title=The 32nd Academy Awards (1960) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=2011-08-21 |work=oscars.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094204/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/32nd-winners.html |archivedate=6 July 2011 |url-status=live }} Inherit the Wind (1960),{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |title=The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=May 4, 2015 |work=oscars.org |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015234831/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |archivedate=October 15, 2015 }} Judgment at Nuremberg (1961),{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962 |title=The 34th Academy Awards (1962) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=February 19, 2015 |work=oscars.org |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215223044/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962 |archivedate=February 15, 2015 }} and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1964 |title=The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=May 4, 2015 |work=oscars.org |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502002917/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1964 |archivedate=May 2, 2015 }}

He died on February 14, 1964.{{cite book |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Fredrick Y. |title=ACE Second Decade Anniversary Book |chapter=In Memoriam |date=1971 |publisher=American Cinema Editors, Inc |page=73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZ8EAQAAIAAJ}}

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Category:American film editors

Category:1906 births

Category:1964 deaths

Category:People from North Dakota