Albert Akst (August 31, 1899 – April 19, 1958) was an American musician turned film editor, played saxophone in Meyer Davis Orchestra and in vaudeville until 1930. He became a film cutter of short subjects and later became an editor on 53 feature films, including Forbidden Passage, Johnny Eager, Ziegfeld Follies, Summer Stock, Brigadoon and Meet Me in Las Vegas. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Somebody Up There Likes Me.[1]
Akst was born in New Jersey and died in Los Angeles, California.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Flaming Guns | Arthur Rosson |
| 1933 | The Rustler's Roundup | Henry MacRae |
| 1934 | Tailspin Tommy | Lew Landers |
| 1935 | A Notorious Gentleman | Edward Laemmle |
| 1935 | Princess O'Hara | David Burton |
| 1935 | The Raven[2] | Lew Landers |
| 1935 | Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery | Ray Taylor |
| 1939 | Home Early | Roy Rowland |
| 1939 | One Against the World[3] | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1939 | Drunk Driving | David Miller |
| 1940 | That Inferior Feeling | Basil Wrangell |
| 1941 | Your Last Act[3] | Richard Duce |
| 1944 | Meet Me in St. Louis[4] | Vincente Minnelli |
References
- ^ "Albert Akst". IMDb. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ^ Nollen, Scott Allen; Nollen, Yuyun Yuningsih. Karloff and the East: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career. McFarland Incorporated. p. 358. ISBN 9781476640860.
- ^ a b Zinnemann, Fred (2005). Miller, Gabriel (ed.). Fred Zinnemann, interviews. Conversations with filmmakers series. Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-698-8.
- ^ Naremore, James; Minnelli, Vincente (1993). The films of Vincente Minnelli. Cambridge film classics (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-521-38770-5.
External links
- Albert Akst at IMDb
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