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Jack Killifer is a Editor American born on 19 november 1898

Jack Killifer

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Nationality USA
Birth 19 november 1898
Death 6 august 1956 (at 57 years)

Jack Killifer est un monteur américain, né le 19 novembre 1898 à Los Angeles (Californie), ville où il est mort (quartier d'Hollywood) le 6 août 1956.

Biography

Au cinéma, pour la Warner, Jack Killifer est monteur sur cinquante-six films américains, depuis Lights of New York de Bryan Foy (1928, avec Helene Costello et Cullen Landis) jusqu'à un court métrage de 1947. Suivent deux derniers films indépendants, sortis respectivement en 1951 et 1955.

Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons Le Beau Joueur d'Alfred E. Green (1931, avec Edward G. Robinson et James Cagney), Les Hors-la-loi de William Keighley (1935, avec James Cagney et Margaret Lindsay), Une certaine femme d'Edmund Goulding (1937, avec Bette Davis et Henry Fonda), ou encore La Grande Évasion de Raoul Walsh (1941, avec Humphrey Bogart et Ida Lupino).

Pour la télévision, il est monteur sur cinq épisodes, diffusés en 1952, de l'émission The Red Skelton Show.

Jack Killifer meurt prématurément en 1956, à 57 ans.

Usually with

Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(13 films)
Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(14 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(11 films)
Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
(11 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jack Killifer (47 films)

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Editor

The Beast with a Million Eyes, 1h15
Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Paul Birch, Dick Sargent, Lorna Thayer, Chester Conklin
Roles Editor
Rating37% 1.861351.861351.861351.861351.86135
The isolated Kelley family struggle with their small farm in a bleak landscape. A mysterious plane crash happens nearby. Then wild and domesticated animals and finally their handyman turn on the family and attack. It turns out a space alien (the beast of the title) has taken over the minds of the lesser animals, working its way up to controlling humans as part of a plan to conquer the world. In the end, the family bond together, unite against the alien and their love conquers all.
The Hoodlum, 1h1
Directed by Max Nosseck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, O. Z. Whitehead, Stuart Randall, Angela Stevens, Gene Roth
Roles Editor
Rating61% 3.0990853.0990853.0990853.0990853.099085
Vincent Lubeck (Lawrence Tierney) is a career criminal who has recently been released from prison. He would not have gotten out had it not been for the pleas of his elderly mother. He gets a job working at his brothers gas station. Bored and jealous of his brother, he steals his brother's girlfriend, impregnates her and refuses to get married. This causes the girl to commit suicide.
Background to Danger, 1h20
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy, Historical, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Osa Massen, Turhan Bey
Roles Editor
Rating63% 3.199313.199313.199313.199313.19931
In 1942, Nazi Germany attempts to bring neutral Turkey into the war on its side by staging an assassination attempt on Franz von Papen, its own ambassador to the country. Much to the annoyance of Colonel Robinson (Sydney Greenstreet), von Papen survives and the Russians that his agent provocateur was trying to frame have solid alibis, forcing him to turn to another scheme to inflame Turkey's traditional rivalry with Russia.
Northern Pursuit, 1h33
Directed by Don Siegel, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Tom Tully, Monte Blue
Roles Editor
Rating65% 3.2949753.2949753.2949753.2949753.294975
After a German U-boat drops off Nazi saboteurs, RCMP Corporal Wagner (Flynn) captures the leader, Colonel Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine), the only survivor after an avalanche wipes out the rest of the group. When left alone with the Canadian Mountie, von Keller discovers that Wagner speaks German and is of German ancestry, and tries to persuade his captor to help him. After being taken into custody, von Keller leads a jailbreak from a prisoner of war camp, enlisting other German soldiers in his escape. Wagner, seemingly under suspicion by the RCMP of being a Nazi sympathizer, is court martialed and contacted by Ernst Willis (Gene Lockhart), a real enemy agent, who hires him as a wilderness guide.
The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1h52
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante, Richard Travis, Billie Burke
Roles Editor
Rating74% 3.7460253.7460253.7460253.7460253.746025
During a cross-country lecture tour, notoriously acerbic radio personality Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) slips on the icy steps of the house of the Stanleys (Grant Mitchell and Billie Burke), a prominent Ohio family, and insists on recuperating in their home during the Christmas holidays. The overbearing, self-centered celebrity soon comes to dominate the lives of the residents and everyone else who enters the household. He encourages young adults Richard (Russell Arms) and June (Elisabeth Fraser) Stanley to pursue their dreams, much to the dismay of their conventional father Ernest.
The Big Shot, 1h22
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Roles Editor
Rating66% 3.3442653.3442653.3442653.3442653.344265
Duke Berns (Humphrey Bogart) est approché par deux malfrats pour commetre un cambriolage chez le riche avocat Martin T. Fleming (Stanley Ridges). Ayant raccroché, il refuse cette proposition mais se rend chez Fleming par curiosité. Il y fait la rencontre de son épouse, Lorna (Irene Manning), qui est l'une de ses anciennes petites amies. Ils reprennent leurs relations, mais Berns est ensuite accusé du cambriolage sanglant qui endeuille peu après la maison de Fleming ...
Gentleman Jim, 1h44
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, John Loder, Ward Bond
Roles Editor
Rating74% 3.745163.745163.745163.745163.74516
In 1890s San Francisco, boxing is illegal. James J. Corbett (Errol Flynn), a brash young bank teller, attends a match with his friend Walter Lowrie (Jack Carson). When a police raid nets Judge Geary, a member of the board of directors of Corbett's bank, Corbett's fast talking gets his superior out of trouble. The judge is looking to improve the image of boxing by recruiting men from more respectable backgrounds and having them fight under the Marquess of Queensberry rules. He has even imported British coach Harry Watson (Rhys Williams) to evaluate prospects. Watson finds that Corbett, raised in a combative Irish immigrant family headed by Pat Corbett (Alan Hale), has excellent fighting skills; Geary likes his protégé's seemingly-polished manner.
High Sierra, 1h40
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, John Arthur Kennedy, Cornel Wilde, Henry Travers
Roles Editor
Rating74% 3.7455253.7455253.7455253.7455253.745525
An aged gangster, Big Mac (Donald MacBride), is planning a robbery at a California resort in Palm Springs. He wants the experienced Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), just released from an eastern prison by a governor's pardon, to lead the heist and to take charge of the operation.
The Smiling Ghost, 1h11
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Ghost films, Films based on plays, Comedy horror films
Actors Wayne Morris, Alexis Smith, Alan Hale, Brenda Marshall, Lee Patrick, David Bruce
Roles Editor
Rating63% 3.197253.197253.197253.197253.19725
The elderly Mrs. Bentley (Helen Westley) and her lawyer see a newspaper ad from an unemployed and unmarried engineer seeking work doing “anything legal.” The lawyer calls the engineer, Alexander “Lucky” Downing (Wayne Morris), and sets up a meeting, during which Lucky is offered $1000 to feign an engagement to Mrs. Bentley’s granddaughter Elinor Bentley Fairchild (Alexis Smith) for one month. Lucky considers it a strange offer, but he needs the money so he takes the job.
Torrid Zone, 1h28
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan
Roles Editor
Rating66% 3.346513.346513.346513.346513.34651
Steve Case (Pat O'Brien) has to deal with trouble at his tropical fruit company's Central American banana plantation. A revolutionary, Rosario La Mata (George Tobias), is stirring up unrest among the workers, and the only man who can handle the situation, foreman Nick Butler (James Cagney), has just quit. Steve manages to persuade Nick to stick around (for a big bonus). Adding to the complications is Lee Donley (Ann Sheridan), a woman whom Steve has ordered out of the region for causing a different kind of trouble among the men.
The Roaring Twenties, 1h44
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn
Roles Editor
Rating78% 3.9462153.9462153.9462153.9462153.946215
Three men meet in a foxhole during the waning days of World War I: Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), George Hally (Humphrey Bogart) and Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), and experience trials and tribulations from the Armistice through the passage of the 18th Amendment leading to the Prohibition period of the 1920s and the violence which erupted due to it, all the way through the 1929 stock market crash to its conclusion at the end of 1933, only days after the 21st Amendment brought an end to the Prohibition era.
They Made Me a Criminal, 1h32
Directed by Busby Berkeley, Hal B. Wallis, Benjamin Glazer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors John Garfield, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, May Robson, Gloria Dickson, Billy Halop
Roles Editor
Rating67% 3.395313.395313.395313.395313.39531
Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield) is a world champion boxer falsely accused of murder. He disappeared and is presumed dead. The only witnesses who could have exonerated him were his manager and girlfriend, both of whom have died in an automobile accident. Detective Monty Phalen (Claude Rains) believes that Johnnie is still alive and hasn't given up the search for him. Johnnie, meanwhile, is hiding out on Grandma Rafferty's (May Robson) farm in Arizona. It is there that Johnnie meets up with some juvenile delinquents, Tommy (Billy Halop), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), Dippy (Huntz Hall), T.B. (Gabriel Dell), and Milty (Bernard Punsly), who are under the guardianship of Tommy's sister Peggy (Gloria Dickson).
A Child Is Born, 1h19
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gladys George, Gale Page, Spring Byington, Johnnie Davis
Roles Editor
Rating60% 3.0496353.0496353.0496353.0496353.049635
Jed Sutton (Jeffrey Lynn) arrive à la maternité d'un grand hôpital pour rendre visite à sa femme Grace (Geraldine Fitzgerald), une meurtrière condamnée libérée de prison pour pouvoir donner naissance à son enfant. Peu après, M West (Spring Byington) arrive également à la maternité pour donner naissance à son septième enfant, et est accueillie par M Bowers (Gale Page), l'infirmière en chef. Sont également présents dans la salle d'attente, Florette Laverne (Gladys George), une danseuse enceinte de jumeaux et qui ne veut pas d'enfant parce que son mari Harry l'a menacé de la quitter ; Gladys Norton (Nanette Fabray), 18 ans, qui est secrètement mariée et craint la réaction de sa mère ; M Kempner (Gloria Holden), qui veut désespérément un enfant même si les médecins lui ont dit qu'elle ne pourra jamais en porter un ; et M Helen Banks (Jean Sharon), dont le mari arpente la salle d'attente.