Carl Kress (film editor)

Carl Kress
Born	(1937-02-03) February 3, 1937 (age 88) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film editor
Parent	Harold F. Kress (father)[1]

Carl Kress (born February 3, 1937) is an American film editor.^[2][3] He won an Academy Award in the category Best Film Editing for the film The Towering Inferno.^[4]

Selected filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1970	The Liberation of L.B. Jones	William Wyler
	Watermelon Man	Melvin Van Peebles
1971	Doctors' Wives	George Schaefer
1972	Cholo	Bernardo Batievsky
1974	Sugar Hill	Paul Maslansky
	Act of Vengeance	Bob Kelljan
	The Towering Inferno	John Guillermin
1976	The Blue Bird	George Cukor	Uncredited
	Drum	Steve Carver
1977	Audrey Rose	Robert Wise
1979	A Man, a Woman, and a Bank	Noel Black
	Meteor	Ronald Neame	First collaboration with Ronald Neame
1980	Hopscotch		Second collaboration with Ronald Neame
1981	Looker	Michael Crichton
1983	Stroker Ace	Hal Needham	First collaboration with Hal Needham
1984	Cannonball Run II		Second collaboration with Hal Needham
1986	Rad		Third collaboration with Hal Needham
1988	Bloodsport	Newt Arnold
1989	Meet the Hollowheads	Thomas R. Burman
1991	Wedlock	Lewis Teague
1995	Bodily Harm	James Lemmo
2000	The Redemption	Himself
2002	The Marriage Undone	Sarah Nean Bruce
2004	Slammed	Brian Thomas Jones
2009	Night Train	Brian King

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role
1978	Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys	Anthony Bowers	Supervising editor

Actor

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1955	Blackboard Jungle	Richard Brooks	Peewee	Uncredited

Director

Year	Film
2000	The Redemption

Shorts

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1978	Cowboysan	Susan Oliver

TV documentaries

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1965	France: Conquest to Liberation	Aram Boyajian
1968	Sophia: A Self-Portrait	Robert Abel Mel Stuart

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role
1969	Los Angeles: Where It's At	Jerome Jacobs Gary Schlosser	Assistant editor

TV movies

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1978	The Deerslayer	Richard Friedenberg
1984	Airwolf	Donald P. Bellisario
1985	Braker	Victor Lobl
	Generation	Michael Tuchner
1990	I'm Dangerous Tonight	Tobe Hooper
1994	Shattered Image	Fritz Kiersch

Sound department

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1975	The Night That Panicked America	Joseph Sargent	Sound editor	Uncredited

TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Notes
1972	The Explorers	1 episode
1972−73	The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau	2 episodes
1984	Airwolf
	Paper Dolls	3 episodes
1987	Matlock	2 episodes
1989−90	B.L. Stryker	6 episodes

Editorial department

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Men in Crisis	Assistant editor	2 episodes

References

1. Oliver, Myrna (September 28, 1999). "Harold F. Kress; Film Editor Won 2 Oscars". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
2. Hussar, John (May 10, 1975). "Father-Son Team Gets Oscar For Expertise Over Disasters". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. p. 15. Retrieved January 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "(untitled brief)". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. May 5, 2001. p. 81. Retrieved January 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 9, 2022.

External links

• Carl Kress at IMDb