Owen Marks

{{Short description|British-American film editor (1899–1960)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth-date|August 8, 1899}}

| birth_place = England, United Kingdom

| death_date = {{death-date and age|18 September 1960|8 August 1899}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States

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| occupation = Film editor

| yearsactive = 1928–1961

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Owen Marks (August 8, 1899 – September 18, 1960) was an English film editor who worked in the US.

Born in England, Marks spent time as a prizefighter{{cite book |last=Harmetz|first=Aljean|title=The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSJcTLPP9QcC&q=owen+marks+casablanca&pg=PA25 |access-date=August 13, 2013 |year=2002 |publisher=Hyperion |isbn=9780786888146 |page=262}} before his film career began in 1928, when Warner Bros. contracted him as a film editor. He edited over 95 films during his tenure. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Casablanca{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944 |title=The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}} (1942) and Janie{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945 |title=The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}} (1944), but did not win either time.

Marks died on September 18, 1960, in Los Angeles, California. His final films as editor, The Sins of Rachel Cade and Parrish, were released posthumously in 1961.