Ralph E. Winters
Born: 1909-06-17 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: 2004-02-26
Known For: Editing
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). Winters' other films included On the Town (1949), High Society (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). Winters had a notable collaboration with director Blake Edwards. Over 20 years, they collaborated on 12 films together, including The Pink Panther (1963), The Party (1968), 10 (1979) and Victor/Victoria (1982). His last film was the pirate epic Cutthroat Island in 1995. Winters had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors, and in 1991, Winters received the organization's career achievement award. His memoir, Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor, was published in 2001.
Filmography
2003
- The Pink Panther Story as Himself
1995
- Cutthroat Island ... (Editor)
1994
- Lily in Winter ... (Editor)
1993
- Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic as Self - Editor
- Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth ... (Editor)
1986
- Let's Get Harry ... (Editor)
- Big Trouble ... (Editor)
1984
- Micki & Maude ... (Editor)
1983
- The Man Who Loved Women ... (Editor)
1982
- Victor/Victoria ... (Editor)
1981
- S.O.B. ... (Editor)
1979
- 10 ... (Editor)
1978
- The Other Side of Hell ... (Editor)
1977
- Orca ... (Editor)
1976
- King Kong ... (Editor)
1974
- The Front Page ... (Editor)
- Mr. Majestyk ... (Editor)
- The Spikes Gang ... (Editor)
1973
- The Outfit ... (Editor)
- The All-American Boy ... (Editor)
1972
- The Carey Treatment ... (Editor)
- Avanti! ... (Editor)
1971
- Kotch ... (Editor)
1970
- The Hawaiians ... (Editor)
1969
- Gaily, Gaily ... (Editor)
1968
- The Thomas Crown Affair ... (Editor)
- The Party ... (Editor)
1967
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ... (Editor)
- Fitzwilly ... (Editor)
1966
- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? ... (Editor)
1965
- The Great Race ... (Editor)
1964
- A Shot in the Dark ... (Editor)
1963
- The Pink Panther ... (Editor)
- Soldier in the Rain ... (Editor)
- Dime with a Halo ... (Editor)
1961
- Ada ... (Editor)
1960
- BUtterfield 8 ... (Editor)
1959
- Ben-Hur ... (Editor)
1958
- The Sheepman ... (Editor)
1957
- Jailhouse Rock ... (Editor)
- Man on Fire ... (Editor)
1956
- Tribute to a Bad Man ... (Editor)
- High Society ... (Editor)
1955
- Love Me or Leave Me ... (Editor)
- Jupiter's Darling ... (Editor)
1954
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ... (Editor)
- Executive Suite ... (Editor)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Young Bess ... (Editor)
- Kiss Me Kate ... (Editor)
- The Story of Three Loves ... (Editor)
1951
- Quo Vadis ... (Editor)
1950
- King Solomon's Mines ... (Editor)
1949
- Any Number Can Play ... (Editor)
- Little Women ... (Editor)
- On the Town ... (Editor)
1948
- Hills of Home ... (Editor)
- Tenth Avenue Angel ... (Editor)
1947
- Killer McCoy ... (Editor)
- Intrigue as Air Force Pilot at Bar (uncredited)
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge ... (Editor)
1945
- Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ... (Editor)
1944
- The Thin Man Goes Home ... (Editor)
- Gaslight ... (Editor)
1943
- Young Ideas ... (Editor)
- Cry 'Havoc' ... (Editor)
1942
- Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant ... (Editor)
- Kid Glove Killer ... (Editor)
- The Affairs of Martha ... (Editor)
- Eyes in the Night ... (Editor)
- Mr. and Mrs. North ... (Editor)
1941
- The People Vs. Dr. Kildare ... (Editor)