Ferris Webster (April 29, 1912–February 4, 1989), an American film editor, was nominated for Academy Awards for his work on The Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Great Escape (1963). April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Film editing. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Blackboard Jungle (also known as The Blackboard Jungle) is a 1955 motion picture of social commentary that catalysed a genre of teacher dramas. ... The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer and based upon the 1959 novel by Richard Condon. ... The Great Escape, written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett and directed by John Sturges is a popular 1963 World War II film, based on a true story about Allied POWs with a record for escaping from POW camps. ...

Webster edited seventy-two films, including six for director Vincente Minnelli: Undercurrent (1946), Madame Bovary (1949), Father of the Bride (1950), Father's Little Dividend (1951), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), and Tea and Sympathy (1956). To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Undercurrent may refer to: Undercurrent (film) a 1946 film directed by Vincente Minelli starring Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor and Robert Mitchum. ... Madame Bovary is a 1949 film adaptation of the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert. ... Father of the Bride is a 1950 comedy film which tells the story of a man trying to cope with all of the disasters that happen along the way from the time that his daughter announces that shes engaged, until the wedding actually occurs. ... Fathers Little Dividend is a 1951 comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. ... 1954 ad for New Moon Mobile Home Company, promoting both their trailers and the film The Long, Long Trailer was a novel by Clinton Twiss from the 1950s about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling the United States. ... Tea and Sympathy is a stage play by Robert Anderson that was adapted by Vincente Minnelli into a 1956 movie starring Deborah Kerr. ...

He edited fifteen films for director John Sturges, including The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Great Escape. John Eliot Sturges (3 January 1911 – 18 August 1982) Known as The dean of big_budget action movies made during the 1950s and 1960. Sturges movies include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ice Station Zebra and Marooned (movie). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Great Escape, written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett and directed by John Sturges is a popular 1963 World War II film, based on a true story about Allied POWs with a record for escaping from POW camps. ...

He edited the three films of director John Frankenheimer's "paranoia trilogy": The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May (1964), and Seconds (1966). Frankenheimer cast Webster in his only appearance as a film actor, as Gen. Bernard "Barney" Rutkowski in Seven Days in May. John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film director. ... Seven Days in May is a political thriller novel (current hardcover edition: ISBN 0060124369) written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey. ...

He edited eight films for director Clint Eastwood: Breezy and High Plains Drifter (both 1973), The Eiger Sanction (1975), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Bronco Billy (1980), and Firefox and Honkytonk Man (both 1982). This article refers to the actor/producer/director. ... ... High Plains Drifter is a 1973 Western movie starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, wherein he plays a character clearly influenced by the Man with No Name from Sergio Leones A Fistful of Dollars and its sequels. ... The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 action/thriller film based on a 1972 novel by American author Dr. Rodney William Whitaker, under the pen name Trevanian, and directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood as Dr. Jonathan Hemlock. ... Film box cover Screenshot from film The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 western movie set at the end of the American Civil War in which a peaceful farmsteader, driven to revenge by the savage and brutal slaying of his family by Union irregulars, joins up with a group of... This page is about the movie. ... ... Firefox may refer to: Firefox (novel), written by Craig Thomas, published in 1978 Firefox (film), the 1982 movie starring Clint Eastwood, based on the novel Firefox (arcade game), the laserdisc arcade game based on the movie Mozilla Firefox, a web browser The Red Fox or the Red Panda, based on... ...

External link

• Ferris Webster at the Internet Movie Database