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Howard A. Smith is a Editor American born on 1 january 1912

Howard A. Smith

Howard A. Smith
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Birth name Howard Alexander Smith
Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1912 (112 years)

Howard Alexander Smith — né courant 1912 à Peoria (Illinois), mort après 1979 — est un monteur américain, généralement crédité Howard A. Smith ou Howard Smith.

Biography

Au cinéma, Howard A. Smith est monteur de soixante-dix-huit films américains sortis entre 1942 et 1975, dont les westerns La Descente tragique de Ray Enright (1948, avec Randolph Scott et Barbara Britton) et À l'ombre des potences de Nicholas Ray (1955, avec James Cagney et Viveca Lindfors), le drame L'Orchidée noire de Martin Ritt (1958) et la comédie La Diablesse en collant rose de George Cukor (1960), tous deux avec Anthony Quinn et Sophia Loren, Diamants sur canapé de Blake Edwards (1961, avec Audrey Hepburn et George Peppard), ou encore L'Inconnu du gang des jeux de Daniel Mann (1962, avec Dean Martin et Lana Turner).

Pour la télévision, il contribue à quatre téléfilms et neuf séries de 1956 à 1979, dont Les Mystères de l'Ouest (un épisode, 1966), Gunsmoke (cinquante-cinq épisodes, 1965-1975) et Hawaï police d'État (douze épisodes, 1968-1977).

Best films

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
(Editor)

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Filmography of Howard A. Smith (54 films)

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Strange Days, 2h25
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Rape in fiction, Films set in the future, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Anticipation
Actors Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Vincent D'Onofrio, Michael Wincott
Roles Editor
Rating71% 3.5982453.5982453.5982453.5982453.598245
In the last two days of 1999, Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone. As a group of criminals rob a Chinese restaurant, the event is recorded by a robber wearing a 'SQUID', or "Superconducting Quantum Interference Device", an illegal electronic device which records events directly from the wearer's cerebral cortex, and when played back through a MiniDisc-like device called a "deck", allow a user to experience the recorder's memories and physical sensations. Lenny Nero is a former LAPD officer turned black marketeer who deals in bootleg SQUID recordings. His main supplier, Tick (Richard Edson), tries to sell the robbery clip to him. Lenny eventually agrees to buy it at a reduced price, having to cut out the last part where the rig records the robber's death by falling; clips that record the wearer's death are known as "blackjack" (snuff) clips, because the experience is described as "jacking into the big black" by Tick.
At Close Range, 1h51
Directed by James Foley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about families
Actors Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, Millie Perkins, Eileen Ryan
Roles Editor
Rating68% 3.449563.449563.449563.449563.44956
Brad Whitewood, Sr. (Christopher Walken) is the leader of an organized crime family. One night, his estranged oldest son, Brad, Jr. (Sean Penn), contacts him after a fight with his mother's boyfriend and stays with him at his home in Hulmeville, Pennsylvania. Eventually, he becomes involved with his father's criminal activities, and starts a gang with his half-brother, Tommy (Chris Penn). The boys attempt a daring heist, which results in their arrest. All of them are bailed out except Brad, Jr.
Stranger in Our House, 1h40
Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate, Jeff McCracken, Jeff East, Carol Lawrence
Roles Editor
Rating54% 2.702072.702072.702072.702072.70207
The story concerns a young woman named Julia (Lee Purcell) who goes to live with her aunt's family after she loses both her parents and their housekeeper in a car crash. Although they haven't seen her in ten years, Julia's aunt Leslie, her husband Tom (Jeremy Slate), her son Peter (Jeff East), daughter Rachel (Linda Blair) and youngest son Bobby (James Jarnigan) are all eager to make the new member of the house feel welcome. Rachel is especially thrilled at the thought of having a girl her age around the house. She even offers to split her bedroom with the cousin. Julia seems painfully shy. The family takes note of her strange accent. It's not the way most people who live on the east coast speak. Trying to open up a bit, Julia gets a makeover and develops a more sophisticated façade.
Mongo's Back in Town, 1h13
Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Telly Savalas, Sally Field, Joe Don Baker, Anne Francis, Charles Cioffi, Martin Sheen
Roles Editor
Rating62% 3.1376953.1376953.1376953.1376953.137695
The Lieutenant Pete Tolstad: Telly Savalas, very similar to Kojak. Joe Don Baker is Mongo Nash Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster, The Lieutenant Tolstad: Telly Savalas must stop.
Cutter's Trail
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Gavin, Marisa Pavan, Joseph Cotten, Manuel Padilla, Jr., Beverly Garland, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Editor
Rating69% 3.4755753.4755753.4755753.4755753.475575
A marshall returns to his home town to find it has been taken over by outlaws.
Ride the Wild Surf, 1h41
Directed by Don Taylor, William Castle, Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films
Actors Shelley Fabares, Fabian Forte, Peter Brown, Barbara Eden, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart
Roles Editor
Rating57% 2.8993752.8993752.8993752.8993752.899375
The story follows three surfers Jody Wallis (Fabian), Steamer Lane (Tab Hunter) and Chase Colton (Peter Brown), who come to Hawaii's Oahu Island to ride the world's biggest waves and compete against surfers from all over the world.
Who's Got the Action?, 1h29
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Margo, Paul Ford
Roles Editor
Rating55% 2.757052.757052.757052.757052.75705
The gambling habit of lawyer Steve Flood (Dean Martin) is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Melanie (Lana Turner), who initially suspects him of marital infidelity. When she learns about the gambling, Melanie talks Steve's law partner Clint Morgan (Eddie Albert), an old flame, into helping her act as a fictitious horse race bookie offering unusually attractive terms to clients.
Hell Is for Heroes, 1h26
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, James Coburn, Nick Adams, Bob Newhart
Roles Editor
Rating68% 3.445613.445613.445613.445613.44561
Montigny, Meurthe-et-Moselle 1944: Squad leader Sergeant Larkin (Harry Guardino) and his men are taking a well-deserved rest behind the lines after conducting front-line combat operations for several weeks. Rumor has it the unit will be rotated state-side and the men are almost giddy in anticipation. During an interlude at a church and later at a tavern, the senior non-commissioned officer, Technical Sergeant Pike (Fess Parker), happens upon acquaintance John Reese (Steve McQueen), a former master sergeant, demoted to private, who walks about armed with a distinctive M3 submachine gun. Reese is the quintessential troubled loner, managing to alienate almost everyone in the squad right from the beginning. Unlike his jubilant comrades, the prospect of a long break from combat, perhaps the end of the war itself, renders Reese morose. The company commander, Captain Loomis (Joseph Hoover), is worried because Reese, although already having won a field citation, acts irresponsibly when there is no fighting, but Pike comments that he is a good soldier in combat.
Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1h55
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about writers, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, Buddy Ebsen, Mickey Rooney
Roles Editor
Rating76% 3.800963.800963.800963.800963.80096
One early morning, a yellow taxi pulls up at Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue in New York City, from which elegantly dressed Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) emerges. Standing outside the shop looking into the windows, she nibbles on pastry and drinks coffee she brought with her, then strolls home to go to bed. Outside her apartment, she fends off her date Sid Arbuck (Claude Stroud) from the disastrous night before. Later in the day she is awakened by new neighbor-tenant, Paul Varjak (George Peppard), ringing her doorbell to get into the building. The pair chat as she dresses to leave for her weekly visit to Sally Tomato (Alan Reed), a mobster incarcerated at Sing Sing prison. Tomato's lawyer O'Shaughnessy pays her $100 a week to receive "the weather report.
All in a Night's Work, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Charles Ruggles, Norma Crane, Jerome Cowan
Roles Editor
Rating60% 3.048353.048353.048353.048353.04835
Tony Ryder's uncle, the wealthy owner of a newspaper, has just died. The young playboy Tony inherits the paper but is left with a board of directors that thinks he's unsuited for the task, plus a hotel detective who thinks Tony should know about a girl who was seen running away from his uncle's Palm Beach hotel room, wearing nothing but a Turkish towel and an earring, on the night of his death.
Heller in Pink Tights, 1h40
Directed by George Cukor, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Théâtre
Actors Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Steve Forrest, Margaret O'Brien, Ramón Novarro, Eileen Heckart
Roles Editor
Rating58% 2.9496752.9496752.9496752.9496752.949675
In the 1880s, followed by bill collectors, the Healy Dramatic Company arrives in Cheyenne to play at the west’s grandest theater. Continental actress, Angela, and owner-manager, Tom Healy, head a troupe that includes Della as ingenue, her mother, a character actress, Lorna, and a grand old Shakespearean ham, Doc Montague. After a creditor arrives, Angela collects a night’s receipt from a man named, Pierce, the theater owner. She risks it all in a poker game with gunslinger Clint Mabry, puts herself up as collateral, and loses.
A Breath of Scandal, 1h37
Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin, Angela Lansbury, Isabel Jeans, Tullio Carminati
Roles Editor
Rating55% 2.753042.753042.753042.753042.75304
La princesse Olympia, une jeune et jolie veuve exilée loin de la cour de Vienne par l'empereur, vit dans son château, avec ses fusils et ses chevaux. Galopant dans la campagne, elle est désarçonnée par son cheval alors qu'elle croise la voiture d'un jeune américain, Charlie Foster.
The Black Orchid, 1h34
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Peter Mark Richman, Ina Balin, Frank Puglia, Virginia Vincent
Roles Editor
Rating63% 3.1963153.1963153.1963153.1963153.196315
Rose Bianco (Sophia Loren) a florist widowed by a famous gangster, looks for happiness with widower Frank Valente (Anthony Quinn). Rose is dealing with her son Ralph in a work farm for troubled boys, while for Frank, his grown up daughter Mary (Ina Balin) takes care of everything for him. Noble and Mary love each other and are engaged, but Mary refuses to marry him because she worries about who will take care of her father. She asks Noble to marry her and stay with her in her father’s house. At the same time, however, she refuses to accept Rose as her stepmother and allow her to join the family. Before Frank’s wedding day Mary irons Frank’s clothes, cooks all the food and locks herself in her room. This leads Rose and Frank to call everything off, devastating them both.
That Kind of Woman, 1h32
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Beatrice Arthur, Jack Warden, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn
Roles Editor
Rating61% 3.096843.096843.096843.096843.09684
The film is set during World War II. Kay is a sophisticated Italian woman, the mistress of a Manhattan millionaire industrialist known simply as The Man, who uses her to help him influence his contacts at The Pentagon. While en route from Miami to New York City by train, she and her friend Jane meet a considerably younger American paratrooper named Red and his sergeant George Kelly, and Kay and Red fall into a romantic relationship. Eventually the woman finds herself torn between her upscale life in a Sutton Place apartment and the prospect of true love with the GI.