Francis D. Lyon
Film director
1905 – 1996
Who was Francis D. Lyon?
Francis D. Lyon was an American film director and film editor. He and Robert Parrish won the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul.
He was born in North Dakota and attended UCLA before moving to England to begin his career in film. He returned to the US and from the early 1930s to the 1950s, Lyon was exclusively an editor. He had worked on 25 films as an editor including The Men in Her Life, Body and Soul and The Young and The Brave. He moved on to directing, and was credited on more than over 20 additional films before eventually retiring from the entertainment industry in 1970.
In 1993, Lyon published a memoir entitled Twists of Fate: An Oscar Winner's International Career.
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- Born
- Jul 29, 1905
Bowbells - Also known as
- Francis Lyon
- Pete
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Anna B. Coursen
(1935/03/30 - 1996/10/08)
- Anna B. Coursen
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Lived in
- North Dakota
- Died
- Oct 8, 1996
Green Valley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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