Ralph E. Winters

Personal Info

Know For

Editing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-06-17 (95 years old)

Deathday

2004-02-26

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ralph E. Winters

Biography

Ralph E. Winters (June 17, 1909 – February 26, 2004) was a Canadian-born film editor who became one of the leading figures of this field in the American industry. After beginning on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first major film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller Gaslight (1944). Winters won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for King Solomon's Mines (1950) (shared with Conrad A. Nervig) and Ben-Hur (1959) (shared with John D. Dunning). He received four additional nominations: Quo Vadis (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), The Great Race (1965) and Kotch (1971). W...

Acting

1947

Intrigue

as Air Force Pilot at Bar (uncredited)

1993

Production

1974

1959

Ben-Hur

as Editor

1976

King Kong

as Editor

1958

The Sheepman

as Editor

1963

1968

The Party

as Editor

1956

High Society

as Editor

1965

1951

Quo Vadis

as Editor

1979

10

as Editor

1972

Avanti!

as Editor

1982

1977

Orca

as Editor

1974

1942

1995

1955

1947

Killer McCoy

as Editor

1948

Hills of Home

as Editor

1943

Young Ideas

as Editor

1972

1967

Fitzwilly

as Editor

1973

The Outfit

as Editor

1981

S.O.B.

as Editor

1960

BUtterfield 8

as Editor

1969

Gaily, Gaily

as Editor

1970

The Hawaiians

as Editor

1974

Mr. Majestyk

as Editor

1944

Gaslight

as Editor

1963

1957

1953

Kiss Me Kate

as Editor

1949

Little Women

as Editor

1948

1986

Big Trouble

as Editor

1964

1963

1984

Micki & Maude

as Editor

1957

Man on Fire

as Editor

1949

1949

On the Town

as Editor

1954

1943

Cry 'Havoc'

as Editor

1955

1953

Young Bess

as Editor

1942

1986

1942

1961

Ada

as Editor

1971

Kotch

as Editor

1994

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