Barbara McLean

Personal Info

Know For

Editing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1903-11-16 (93 years old)

Deathday

1996-03-28

Place of Birth

Palisades Park, New Jersey, USA

Barbara McLean

Biography

Barbara McLean (November 16, 1903 – March 28, 1996) was an American film editor. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department. She won the 1944 Academy Award for Film Editing for the film Wilson. She was nominated for the same award for six additional films, including the "classic", All About Eve (1950). Her total of seven nominations for editing during her career was only surpassed in 2012 by Michael Kahn. She had a notable collaboration with the director Henry King that extended ...

Production

1950

All About Eve

as Editor

1952

Viva Zapata!

as Editor

1950

1953

Niagara

as Editor

1940

1940

Maryland

as Editor

1955

Untamed

as Editor

1951

1940

Chad Hanna

as Editor

1933

Gallant Lady

as Editor

1934

1935

1935

Metropolitan

as Editor

1935

1936

1937

1951

1951

1938

1955

1954

The Egyptian

as Editor

1939

Jesse James

as Editor

1956

On the Threshold of Space

as Associate Producer

1939

1940

1941

Tobacco Road

as Editor

1942

1944

1944

Wilson

as Editor

1947

1949

1953

1936

1946

Margie

as Editor

1953

The Robe

as Editor

1938

Suez

as Editor

1948

Deep Waters

as Editor

1950

No Way Out

as Editor

1945

1949

1929

Coquette

as Editor

1945

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