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George Amy
Television producer, Film director
1903 – 1986
Who was George Amy?
George Joseph Amy started his career aged 17 as an American film editor, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s. It was Amy's editing that was one of the main reasons Warners' films got their reputation for their fluid style and breakneck pace.
He was a favorite of such top Warners directors as Michael Curtiz and Howard Hawks, and won an Academy Award for Film Editing for Hawks' Air Force. He received Oscar nominations for Curtiz's Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 and Raoul Walsh's fanciful war film Objective, Burma! in 1945. Although Amy directed several shorts and a few features on his own for Warners, they didn't meet with much success. In the 1950s he turned to editing and directing for television.
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- Born
- Oct 15, 1903
Brooklyn - Also known as
- George Joseph Amy
- George J. Amy
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 18, 1986
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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