Frank P. Keller

Who was Frank P. Keller?

Frank P. Keller was an American film and television editor with 24 feature film credits from 1958 - 1977. He is noted for the series of films he edited with director Peter Yates, for his four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, and for the "revolutionary" car chase sequence in the film Bullitt that likely won him the editing Oscar.

During the Second World War, Keller worked with editor Norval Crutcher on cataloging the film shot by combat cameramen in Europe. In 1949, Keller was editor Al Clark's assistant on All the King's Men. From 1952-1956, Keller worked as an editor with Frank Capra on the first four films of The Bell Laboratory Science Series, sponsored by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Their work culminated with the 1956 televising of Our Mr. Sun, which was the first film of the series. Keller later edited the seventh and eighth films in the series, Thread of Life and About Time, which were produced by Owen Crump for Warner Bros..

Keller's first editing credit on a feature film was for The Bonnie Parker Story, which was a film noir directed by William Witney.