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Ben Lewis is a Actor and Editor American born on 6 february 1894

Ben Lewis

Ben Lewis
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 february 1894
Death 29 december 1970 (at 76 years)

Ben Lewis est un monteur américain, né le 6 février 1894 à New York (État de New York), mort le 29 décembre 1970 à Los Angeles (quartier d'Hollywood, Californie).

Biography

Frère du réalisateur Joseph H. Lewis (1907-2000), il travaille au sein de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, où il assiste Lloyd Nosler au montage de Ben-Hur de Fred Niblo (1925).

Comme monteur à part entière, au cinéma, il débute sur quatre films muets sortis en 1926, dont Le Balourd de William A. Wellman (avec Gertrude Olmstead et George K. Arthur). Suivent cent-quatorze autres films américains à ce poste, les trois derniers sortis en 1968 (deux ans avant sa mort, en 1970, à 76 ans).

Dans l'intervalle, citons Le Baiser de Jacques Feyder (1929, avec Greta Garbo et Conrad Nagel), Les Invités de huit heures de George Cukor (1933, avec Marie Dressler et John Barrymore), Un homme change son destin de Sam Wood (1949, avec James Stewart et June Allyson), le western La Dernière Chasse de Richard Brooks (1956, avec Robert Taylor et Stewart Granger), ou encore Les Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse de Vincente Minnelli (1962, avec Glenn Ford et Ingrid Thulin).

À la télévision, il est monteur sur deux séries (1956-1961) et un téléfilm (1966).

En 1937, Ben Lewis est l'un des trois membres fondateurs de la Motion Picture Editors Guild .

Best films

Trader Horn (1931)
(Editor)
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
(Editor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ben Lewis (85 films)

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Actor

The Russell Girl, 1h30
Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Amber Tamblyn, Jennifer Ehle, Henry Czerny, Paul Wesley, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Tim DeKay
Roles Jon Morrisey
Rating66% 3.344833.344833.344833.344833.34483
Sarah Russell, une jeune femme de 23 ans étudiante à l'université de médecine, rend visite à sa famille pour partager avec eux d'importantes nouvelles. Mais au lieu de trouver du réconfort, elle se retrouve confrontée à une période douloureuse de son passé.
You're a Sweetheart, 1h36
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Alice Faye, George Murphy, Ken Murray, Charles Winninger, Andy Devine, William Gargan
Roles Man (uncredited)
Rating53% 2.661652.661652.661652.661652.66165
A big and important Broadway producer is opening his new big show. He is alarmed when he discovers his new show opens on the same night as a charity convention. He decides to lie about the tickets already being sold, so the show will be more alluring.

Editor

The Young Runaways, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Brooke Bundy, Lloyd Bochner, Patty McCormack, Lynn Bari, Norman Fell, Quentin Dean
Roles Editor
Rating53% 2.668592.668592.668592.668592.66859
The film begins with Shelley Morrison (Brooke Bundy) packing to run away from home because she feels she is not loved by her widowed father (Lloyd Bochner). She tells their maid (future The Jeffersons star Isabel Sanford) that to her father she is not his daughter,but a product. She has overheard him telling columnist Army Archerd that he is testing some of his psychological theories about teenagers on his own daughter.
Riot on Sunset Strip, 1h27
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mimsy Farmer, John Hart, Aldo Ray, Pat Renella, Tim Rooney
Roles Editor
Rating49% 2.464852.464852.464852.464852.46485
Hot Rods to Hell
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Mimsy Farmer, Jeffrey Byron, Charles P. Thompson, Liz Renay
Roles Editor
Rating54% 2.703172.703172.703172.703172.70317
Traveling salesman Tom Phillips (Dana Andrews) is driving home to Boston, Massachusetts for Christmas when he encounters a drunken driver on a rain-streaked road. He cannot avoid a collision, and is hospitalized with spinal damage. Since he cannot be a traveling salesman anymore, his brother arranges for Tom to buy a remote motel in the desert town of Mayville, California. Tom is reluctant, since he has never been an innkeeper before—but in the end he decides that he must travel in order to get as far away from the site of his accident as possible, as soon as possible.
Harum Scarum, 1h25
Directed by Gene Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries, Michael Ansara, Phillip Reed, Jay Novello
Roles Editor
Rating46% 2.307352.307352.307352.307352.30735
American movie star Johnny Tyrone goes to the Middle East to premiere his new picture. He is seduced by the lovely Aishah, then kidnapped by a man who wants Johnny to help him kill the king.
Harum Scarum, 1h25
Directed by Gene Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries, Michael Ansara, Phillip Reed, Jay Novello
Roles Editor
Rating46% 2.307352.307352.307352.307352.30735
La star de cinéma américaine Johnny Tyrone va au Moyen-Orient pour la première de son nouveau film. Il est séduite par la belle Aishah, puis enlevée par un homme qui veut que Johnny l'aide à tuer le roi.
Get Yourself a College Girl, 1h27
Directed by Sidney Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Sports films
Actors Mary Ann Mobley, Nancy Sinatra, Chad Everett, Joan O'Brien, Lori Williams, Chris Noel
Roles Editor
Rating49% 2.462172.462172.462172.462172.46217
Terry Taylor (Mary Ann Mobley) is a senior at conservative Wyndham College for Women (fictitious) and, under an assumed name, a successful pop songwriter. After her publisher Gary Underwood (Chad Everett) unknowingly exposes her career, Wyndham's board of trustees—including the college founder's grandson, California State Senator Hubert Morrison (Willard Waterman)—condemns Terry for indecent behavior.
Kissin' Cousins, 1h36
Directed by Gene Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Yvonne Craig, Arthur O'Connell, Glenda Farrell, Jack Albertson, Cynthia Pepper
Roles Editor
Rating52% 2.649272.649272.649272.649272.64927
Elvis plays the dual role of look-alike cousins Josh Morgan, a dark-haired U.S. Air Force second lieutenant, and Jodie Tatum, a blond hillbilly. The film is set in the hills of Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, but is mostly shot on Hollywood sets and in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California. Josh, along with Captain Robert Jason Salbo (Jack Albertson), has to persuade the Tatums, his distant relatives on his mother's side, to sell their land to the U.S. government so that it can be used as an ICBM missile base.
Drums of Africa
Directed by James B. Clark
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Frankie Avalon, Mariette Hartley, Lloyd Bochner, Torin Thatcher, Hari Rhodes, George Sawaya
Roles Editor
Rating46% 2.3436652.3436652.3436652.3436652.343665
Three adventurers fight slave traders in the Congo.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 2h33
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Glenn Ford, Paul Henreid, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.2436353.2436353.2436353.2436353.243635
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le conflit entre les deux branches, l'une française et l'autre allemande, dont est issue une famille argentine, sur fond de nazisme et d'occupation de Paris.
The Honeymoon Machine, 1h27
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger, Jack Weston
Roles Editor
Rating61% 3.0512053.0512053.0512053.0512053.051205
Civilian scientist Jason Eldridge (Hutton) runs Magnetic Analyzer Computing Synchrotron (MACS), a vacuum-tube computer aboard the USS Elmira. He and his friend Lt. Ferguson Howard (McQueen) realize that, by using MACS to record a roulette table's spins over time, the computer can predict future results. Howard and LTJG Beauregard Gilliam (Mullaney) check into a Venice casino's hotel dressed as civilians with Eldridge, defying Admiral Fitch's (Jagger) order that naval officers on shore avoid the casino and wear uniforms. They plan to use signal lamps to communicate with a confederate manning MACS on the Elmira.
Atlantis: The Lost Continent, 1h31
Directed by George Pal
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Films based on plays, Films set in Atlantis
Actors John Dall, Frank DeKova, Edward Platt, Berry Kroeger, William Smith, Edgar Stehli
Roles Editor
Rating55% 2.750082.750082.750082.750082.75008
A Greek fisherman named Demetrios (Sal Ponti, under the screen name of Anthony Hall) and his father rescue Princess Antillia (Joyce Taylor) from a shipwreck without knowing that she is from the technologically advanced civilization of Atlantis. After rescuing the Atlantean princess, Demetrios must travel beyond the Pillars of Hercules to take her home. Upon returning her to her civilization, Demetrios, expecting to receive a reward, is instead enslaved and forced to work in the crater of the volcano which dominates the island.
The Subterraneans, 1h29
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Roddy McDowall, Anne Seymour, Jim Hutton
Roles Editor
Rating50% 2.51982.51982.51982.51982.5198
Leo is a 28-year-old novelist who still lives at home with his mother. One night he stumbles upon some beatniks at a coffee house. He falls in love with the beautiful but unstable Mardou Fox.