Ferris Webster

Personal Info

Know For

Editing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-04-29 (77 years old)

Deathday

1989-02-04

Place of Birth

Walla Walla, Washington, USA

Ferris Webster

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ferris Webster (April 29, 1912 – February 4, 1989) was an American film editor with approximately seventy-two film credits. He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for his work on Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Great Escape (1963). Webster was raised in the state of Washington, and was a student at the University of Southern California, where he was an outstanding track and field athlete. He was trained as an editor at the MGM Studios, and received his first feature-film credit in 1943 for Harrigan's Kid. At MGM, Webster edited six films with directo...

Acting

1964

Seven Days in May

as Gen. Bernard "Barney" Rutkowski (uncredited)

Production

1956

1982

Firefox

as Editor

1953

Lili

as Editor

1959

Never So Few

as Editor

1975

1973

Magnum Force

as Editor

1966

Seconds

as Editor

1950

1963

1964

1973

1955

1973

Breezy

as Editor

1972

Joe Kidd

as Editor

1946

Undercurrent

as Editor

1982

Honkytonk Man

as Editor

1946

1959

1970

Zig Zag

as Editor

1947

1961

1945

1951

Kind Lady

as Editor

1952

1967

1965

The Satan Bug

as Editor

1980

Bronco Billy

as Editor

1977

The Gauntlet

as Editor

1949

Madame Bovary

as Editor

1971

1944

Rationing

as Editor

1950

1956

Ransom!

as Editor

1971

1957

1950

1968

1943

Swing Fever

as Editor

1956

1952

Lone Star

as Editor

1976

The Enforcer

as Editor

1957

Les Girls

as Editor

1953

1962

Sergeants 3

as Editor

1961

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