Owen Marks

Owen Marks
Born	8 August 1899 England, UK
Died	18 September 1960 (aged 61) Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1928-1961

Owen Marks (8 August 1899 - 18 September 1960) was an English film editor.

Born in England, Marks spent time as a prizefighter^[1] 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 Editing for Casablanca^[2] (1942) and Janie^[3] (1944), but did not win either time.

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

Partial filmography

• The Midnight Taxi (1928)
• The Hottentot (1929)
• Disraeli (1929) (uncredited)
• Mammy (1930)
• Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
• The Millionaire (1931)
• Alexander Hamilton (1931)
• The Hatchet Man (1932)
• Play-Girl (1932)
• The Tenderfoot (1932)
• The Crash (1932)
• You Said a Mouthful (1932)
• The Working Man (1933)
• Voltaire (1933)
• Ever in My Heart (1933)
• Upper World (1934)
• A Lost Lady (1934)
• The Secret Bride (1934)
• While the Patient Slept (1935)
• Traveling Saleslady (1935)
• The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
• We're in the Money (1935)
• Frisco Kid (1935)
• The Petrified Forest (1936)
• China Clipper (1936)
• Black Legion (1937)
• Slim (1937)
• It's Love I'm After (1937)
• Secrets of an Actress (1938)
• Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
• The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
• The Fighting 69th (1940)
• Saturday's Children (1940)
• No Time for Comedy (1940)
• Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
• Affectionately Yours (1941)
• Blues in the Night (1941)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Mission to Moscow (1943)
• Passage to Marseille (1944)
• Janie (1944)
• Pride of the Marines (1945)
• The Man I Love (1947)^[4]
• Nora Prentiss (1947)
• Deep Valley (1947)^[4]
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• Winter Meeting (1948)
• June Bride (1948)
• Colorado Territory (1949)
• White Heat (1949)
• Caged (1950)
• Bright Leaf (1950)
• The West Point Story (1950)
• Highway 301 (1950)
• Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)
• Force of Arms (1951)
• I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
• Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
• The Man Behind the Gun (1953)
• Trouble Along the Way (1953)
• Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
• Lucky Me (1954)
• East of Eden (1955)
• The McConnell Story (1955)
• Santiago (1956)
• Darby's Rangers (1958)
• Lafayette Escadrille (1958)
• Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
• The Hanging Tree (1959)
• A Summer Place (1959)
• The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)
• Parrish (1961)

References

1. Harmetz, Aljean (2002). The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II. Hyperion. p. 262. ISBN 9780786888146. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
2. "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
3. "The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
4. Donati, William (2013). Ida Lupino: A Biography. University Press of Kentucky. p. 251. ISBN 9780813143521.

External links

• Owen Marks at the Internet Movie Database