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William Holmes is a Actor and Editor American born on 17 march 1877 at the Bronx (USA)

William Holmes

William Holmes
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Birth name William Jefferson Holmes
Nationality USA
Birth 17 march 1877 at the Bronx (USA)
Death 1 december 1946 (at 69 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

William (Jefferson) Holmes est un monteur américain, né le 23 février 1904 en Illinois , mort le 2 février 1978 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Biography

William Holmes débute comme assistant-monteur sur Ben-Hur de Fred Niblo (avec Ramón Novarro dans le rôle-titre), sorti en 1925, puis est monteur sur cinquante-cinq autres films américains à partir de 1927, principalement au sein de la Warner Bros.

Mentionnons Svengali d'Archie Mayo (1931, avec John Barrymore et Marian Marsh), Je suis un évadé de Mervyn LeRoy (1932, avec Paul Muni et Glenda Farrell), Hearts Divided de Frank Borzage (1936, avec Marion Davies et Dick Powell), Victoire sur la nuit d'Edmund Goulding (1939, avec Bette Davis et George Brent), ou encore La Charge fantastique de Raoul Walsh (1941, avec Errol Flynn et Olivia de Havilland).

Le dernier film qu'il monte est L'amour n'est pas en jeu de John Huston (avec Bette Davis et Olivia de Havilland), sorti en 1942.

Sergent York d'Howard Hawks (1941, avec Gary Cooper et Walter Brennan) lui permet de gagner l'Oscar du meilleur montage en 1942, année où il se retire.

Best films

Sergeant York (1941)
(Editor)
Dark Victory (1939)
(Editor)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
(Editor)
Svengali (1931)
(Editor)

Usually with

Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(20 films)
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(17 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(15 films)
Robert M. Haas
Robert M. Haas
(14 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of William Holmes (49 films)

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Actor

Frisco Kid
Frisco Kid (1935)
, 1h17
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Lili Damita, Donald Woods, Barton MacLane
Roles deuxième homme (non crédité)
Rating62% 3.100153.100153.100153.100153.10015
In San Francisco in the 1850s, a city where gold fever has left shipowners short-handed, Bat Morgan, a sailor come ashore is robbed and nearly shanghaied aboard another ship. Managing to escape, he sticks around town to pay back those responsible and then to take a cut in the action in the vice district. Organizing the various gambling houses (and other forms of vice implied but, for Code reasons, not explicitly stated) into a consolidated enterprise in alliance with a corrupt city boss, Jim Dailey, he comes into conflict with a crusading newspaper, run by Jean Barrat, the daughter of the late murdered publisher, and Charles Ford, the idealistic editor to whom Jean is all but engaged.

Editor

In This Our Life, 1h37
Directed by John Huston, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Charles Coburn, George Brent, Frank Craven, Dennis Morgan
Roles Editor
Rating72% 3.6458353.6458353.6458353.6458353.645835
In Richmond, Virginia, Asa (Frank Craven) and Lavinia (Billie Burke) (née Fitzroy) Timberlake gave their two daughters male names: Roy (Olivia de Havilland) and Stanley (Bette Davis). The movie opens with the young women as adults. Asa Timberlake has recently lost his piece of a tobacco company to his former partner William Fitzroy (Charles Coburn), his wife's brother. Roy, a successful interior decorator, is married to Dr. Peter Kingsmill (Dennis Morgan). Stanley is engaged to progressive attorney Craig Fleming (George Brent). The night before her wedding, Stanley runs off with Roy's husband Peter. Fleming becomes and stays depressed, but Roy soon decides to keep a positive attitude. After Roy divorces Peter, he and Stanley marry and move to Baltimore.
The Strawberry Blonde, 1h37
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale, Jack Carson, George Tobias
Roles Editor
Rating71% 3.5953753.5953753.5953753.5953753.595375
In 1890s New York City, Biff Grimes (James Cagney) falls in love with society girl and strawberry blonde Virginia Brush (Rita Hayworth). However, Biff's more enterprising "pal" Hugo Barnstead (Jack Carson) wins Virginia's affections. Biff ends up marrying Virginia's less glamorous best friend, Amy Lind (Olivia de Havilland), who Biff eventually realizes was the right one for him all the time.
They Died with Their Boots On, 2h20
Directed by Raoul Walsh, B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, John Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Roles Editor
Rating71% 3.594443.594443.594443.594443.59444
George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) enters West Point and quickly establishes himself as a troublemaker by showing up in an outlandish uniform he had designed himself, which makes him appear to be a visiting foreign general. After the misunderstanding, he signs up as a cadet, and begins to stack up demerits for pranks and a general disregard for rules while at the Point. When the Civil War breaks out, Custer is at the bottom of his class.
Sergeant York, 2h14
Directed by Don Siegel, Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly
Roles Editor
Rating76% 3.846883.846883.846883.846883.84688
Alvin York (Gary Cooper), a poor young Tennessee hillbilly, is an exceptional marksman, but a ne'er-do-well prone to drinking and fighting, which does not make things any easier for his patient mother (Margaret Wycherly). He changes when he meets Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie), and works night and day to buy a good farm so she'll marry him. When he's cheated out of it at the last minute, he returns to his dissolute ways.
Brother Orchid, 1h28
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Gangster films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins
Roles Editor
Rating69% 3.495283.495283.495283.495283.49528
Crime boss Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) retires suddenly, giving leadership of his gang to Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart), while he leaves for a tour of Europe to acquire "class". However, Sarto is repeatedly swindled and finally loses all his money.
City for Conquest, 1h44
Directed by Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, John Arthur Kennedy, Frank Craven, Anthony Quinn, Elia Kazan
Roles Editor
Rating71% 3.5947153.5947153.5947153.5947153.594715
Cagney plays a truck driver named Danny Kenny, who starts as a New York boxing contender. Ann Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Being successful as a boxer, Danny decides to financially help his brother Eddie (Arthur Kennedy) to become a professional musician. Peggy on the other hand, loses her heart to Murray Burns (Anthony Quinn), a professional dancer, and she turns down Danny's proposal in order to go for a dancing career. Embittered by Peggy's refusal, Danny continues to work as a boxer and eventually gets blinded by his opponent during a fight, who has placed some rosin dust onto his gloves. Now blind, Danny works as a newspaper stand operator, while Peggy's career as a dancer did not materialize. The movie ends with Eddie becoming a successful composer who dedicates his first major symphony at Carnegie Hall to his brother, who is listening to the concert on the radio from his newsstand.
Dark Victory, 1h44
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Henry Travers, Ronald Reagan
Roles Editor
Rating73% 3.6970053.6970053.6970053.6970053.697005
Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a young, carefree, hedonistic Long Island socialite and heiress with a passion for horses, fast cars, and too much smoking and drinking. She initially ignores severe headaches and brief episodes of dizziness and double vision, but when she uncharacteristically takes a spill while riding, and then tumbles down a flight of stairs, her secretary and best friend Ann King (Geraldine Fitzgerald) insists she see the family doctor, who refers her to a specialist.
Indianapolis Speedway, 1h25
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, John Payne, Gale Page, Frank McHugh, Grace Stafford
Roles Editor
Rating57% 2.855722.855722.855722.855722.85572
Deux frères, Joe (Pat O'Brien) et Eddie Greer (John Payne) deviennent rivaux lorsque le frère aîné essaie de convaincre le plus jeune de ne pas abandonner l'école pour devenir pilote automobile comme lui.
Fools for Scandal, 1h20
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Carole Lombard, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Isabel Jeans, Marie Wilson, Ottola Nesmith
Roles Editor
Rating60% 3.0009653.0009653.0009653.0009653.000965
Film star Kay Winters (Carole Lombard) is traveling through Paris under a wig and the pseudonym of Kay Summers with her maid and companion Myrtle (Marie Wilson). She meets Rene (Fernand Gravet), a French marquis who has lost all his money and has pawned all his material possessions to live, about which Paris society does not know. He, in his tuxedo, offers to give her a tour of the real Paris. Kay, who already had plans to attend dinner with Lady Paula Malverton (Isabel Jeans), agrees, having been charmed by the impetuous Rene. Once finished with the tour, they have dinner, and unexpectedly run into Lady Malverton and her party. Lady Malverton calls Rene over to her table, whom she had also invited to join her party, and when he returns he discovers that Kay has left. However, she left a note asking him to lunch with her the following day.
Boy Meets Girl, 1h26
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors James Cagney, Dennie Moore, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy, Frank McHugh
Roles Editor
Rating60% 3.000743.000743.000743.000743.00074
Two screenwriters, Law and Benson (James Cagney and Pat O'Brien), are in need of a story for cowboy star Larry Toms (Dick Foran). When studio waitress Susie Seabrook (Marie Wilson) faints in the office of producer C.F. Friday (Ralph Bellamy) because she is pregnant, the writers get an idea for a story about a cowboy and a baby, and cast Susie's unborn baby Happy in the part. The story will be the classic Hollywood tale: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. When they all leave to sell the idea to their boss, Susie meets and is intrigued by, Rodney Bevan (Bruce Lester), a good-looking young Englishman who is an extra on one of the studio's films.
San Quentin, 1h10
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Prison films
Actors Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Barton MacLane, Joe Sawyer, Marc Lawrence
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.248183.248183.248183.248183.24818
Pat O'Brien plays ex-Army officer Steve Jameson, who becomes the chief guard at San Quentin State Prison. Jameson gets acquainted with Mae Kennedy (Ann Sheridan) who works as a singer in a San-Francisco night club. On that same evening Red Kennedy, her brother (Humphrey Bogart), having been on the run from the police, is arrested at the nightclub where he came to see his sister.
Ever Since Eve, 1h20
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly, Allen Jenkins, Louise Fazenda
Roles Editor
Rating65% 3.2959853.2959853.2959853.2959853.295985
Marge Winton (Marion Davies) is fed up with having to quit job after job to avoid the advances of lecherous bosses. When she goes to the employment agency, she is surprised to discover that she is too beautiful for one position. So she gives herself a makeover, hiding her blond curls under a dark, severe wig, putting on glasses, and wearing a drab, unflattering dress.
Submarine D-1, 1h40
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris, Frank McHugh, Henry O'Neill, Lloyd Bacon
Roles Editor
Rating57% 2.854012.854012.854012.854012.85401
Butch Rogers (Pat O'Brien) and Sock McGillis (Wayne Morris) are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer (Doris Weston). At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are virtually inseparable.