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Ferris Webster est un Acteur, Casteur et Monteur Américain né le 29 avril 1912 à Walla Walla (Etats-Unis)

Ferris Webster

Ferris Webster
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Nom de naissance Ferris Maynard Webster
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 29 avril 1912 à Walla Walla (Etats-Unis)
Mort 4 février 1989 (à 76 ans) à Nipomo (Etats-Unis)

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 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 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). Film critic Bruce Eder has written of Madame Bovay that, "the cutting of the film in the gala ball sequence, in particular, was a marvel of the editor's art in the service of old Hollywood's restrained, elegant storytelling." In the mid-1950s, he edited three films with director Richard Brooks: Blackboard Jungle (1955), Something of Value (1957), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958); Webster received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Blackboard Jungle. His last film at MGM was Key Witness (1960).

Bruce Eder has written, "If ever a film editor deserved public recognition in the 1960s, it was Ferris Webster." Webster edited the three films of director John Frankenheimer's "paranoia trilogy": The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), and Seconds (1966). Eder writes that The Manchurian Candidate was "the editor's magnum opus. The shooting, cutting, and intercutting of one extended brainwashing sequence, seen from multiple points-of-view, is still striking decades later, and the movie earned Webster his second Academy Award nomination." Frankenheimer cast Webster in his only appearance as a film actor, as Gen. Bernard "Barney" Rutkowski in Seven Days in May.

Webster was nominated for an Academy Award for the editing of The Great Escape (1963), which was directed by John Sturges. Webster and Sturges' notable collaboration included fifteen films between 1950 and 1972, which is about half of Sturges' films in that period. It started with The Magnificent Yankee and Mystery Street (1950), and included The Law and Jake Wade (1958), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Ice Station Zebra (1968). The final film of their collaboration was Joe Kidd (1972), which was near the end of Sturges' career.

Joe Kidd starred Clint Eastwood. In the last phase of his career, Webster edited and co-edited eight films that were directed by Eastwood, starting with High Plains Drifter (1973), which was Eastwood's second film as a director. Webster edited Breezy (1973), The Eiger Sanction (1975), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Bronco Billy (1980), Firefox (1982) and Honkytonk Man (both 1982). These latter two films with Eastwood concluded Webster's career as an editor, apparently after a falling-out between the two men.

Additional credits include The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Lili (1953), Forbidden Planet (1956), Les Girls (1957), Divorce American Style (1967).

Ses meilleurs films

Firefox, l'arme absolue (1982)
(Monteur)
Ça va cogner… (1980)
(Monteur)
Josey Wales : hors-la-loi (1976)
(Monteur)
L'Homme des Hautes Plaines (1973)
(Monteur)
La Grande Évasion (1963)
(Monteur)
Joe Kidd (1972)
(Monteur)

Le plus souvent avec

Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
(15 films)
Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(25 films)
John Sturges
John Sturges
(15 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Ferris Webster (72 films)

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AnnéeNomMétierRôle
1982Firefox, l'arme absolueMonteur
1982Honkytonk manMonteur
1980Bronco BillyMonteur
1980Ça va cogner…Monteur
1979L'Évadé d'AlcatrazMonteur
1978Doux, dur et dingueMonteur
1977L'Épreuve de forceMonteur
1976L'inspecteur ne renonce jamaisMonteur
1976Josey Wales : hors-la-loiMonteur
1975La SanctionMonteur
1974Le CanardeurMonteur
1973L'Homme des Hautes PlainesMonteur
1973Magnum ForceMonteur
1973BreezyMonteur
1972Joe KiddMonteur
1971Le MansMonteur
1971L'OrganisationMonteur
1970Commencez la révolution sans nousMonteur
1970La Pluie de printempsMonteur
1970ZigzagMonteur
1968Destination : Zebra, station polaireMonteur
19677 Secondes en EnferCasteur, Monteur
1967Divorce à l'américaineMonteur
1966L'Opération diaboliqueMonteur
1965Sur la piste de la grande caravaneMonteur
1965Station 3 : Ultra SecretMonteur
1964Sept Jours en maiActeur, Monteur
1963La Grande ÉvasionMonteur
1962Un crime dans la têteMonteur
1962Les Trois SergentsMonteur
1961Par l'amour possédéMonteur
1961Tonnerre apacheMonteur
1960Les Sept MercenairesMonteur
1959Vertes DemeuresMonteur
1959La Proie des vautoursMonteur
1958La Chatte sur un toit brûlantMonteur
1958Le Trésor du penduMonteur
1958L'amour coûte cherMonteur
1958The High Cost of LovingMonteur
1957Les GirlsMonteur
1957Le Carnaval des dieuxMonteur
1956Planète interditeMonteur
1956Thé et sympathieMonteur
1956La première balle tueMonteur
1956La Rançon (Ransom !)Monteur
1955Graine de violenceMonteur
1955La Pantoufle de verreMonteur
1954La Roulotte du plaisirMonteur
1953LiliMonteur
1953VickyMonteur
1953La Perle noireMonteur
1952The Girl in WhiteMonteur
1952L'Étoile du destinMonteur
1951Allons donc, papa !Monteur
1951Amour et caméraMonteur
1951Kind LadyMonteur
1950Le père de la mariéeMonteur
1950The Magnificent YankeeMonteur
1950Le Mystère de la plage perdueMonteur
1950J'ai trois amoursMonteur
1949Corps et ÂmeMonteur
1949Madame BovaryMonteur
1948Dans une île avec vousMonteur
1947Quand vient l'hiverMonteur
1947Living in a Big WayMonteur
1946Lame de fondMonteur
1946The Hoodlum SaintMonteur
1945Le Portrait de Dorian GrayMonteur
1945Dangereuse associationMonteur
1945Dangerous PartnersMonteur
1944RationingMonteur
1943Swing FeverMonteur