Rudi Fehr

Biography

Rudolf "Rudi" Fehr, A.C.E. (July 6, 1911 – April 16, 1999) was a German-born, American film editor and studio executive. He had more than thirty credits as an editor of feature films including Key Largo (1946), Dial M for Murder (1954), and Prizzi's Honor (1985). He worked for more than forty years for the Warner Brothers film studio, where he was the Head of Post-production from 1955 through 1976. Fehr was instrumental in establishing the 1967 "sister city" connection between Los Angeles and Berlin, which he had fled in the 1930s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rudi Fehr licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

• ★Order of Merit of Berlin
• ☆Academy Award — Best Film Editing · 1986 · nominated