Elmo Williams
| Elmo Williams | |
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Williams in 2007
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| Born |
James Elmo Williams April 30, 1913 Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | November 25, 2015 (aged 102) Brookings, Oregon, U.S. |
| Occupation | film editor, film producer |
| Spouse(s) | Lorraine Williams (m. 1940; d. 2004) |
| Awards |
ACE Golden Eddie 1971 ACE Career Achievement 1990 |
James Elmo Williams (April 30, 1913 – November 25, 2015) was an American film and television editor, producer, director and executive. His work on the film High Noon (1952) received the Academy Award for Film Editing. In 2006, Williams published Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir.
Among the films that Williams edited are High Noon (1952), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and The Vikings (1958). Williams was involved in the production of The Longest Day (1962) and Cleopatra (1963), and he was a producer of the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). Between 1971 and 1974 Williams was the Head of Production for 20th Century Fox.
Williams edited the film Design for Death (1947), which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Williams won the Academy Award for Film Editing for his work on 1952's High Noon (directed by Fred Zinneman and co-edited with Harry Gerstad, although he was subordinate to Gerstad), and was nominated again for 1954's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (directed by Richard Fleischer).
The editing of High Noon is probably Williams' most studied accomplishment. Critic James Berardinelli wrote, "High Noon's tension comes through Kane's desperation, aided in no small part by Elmo Williams' brilliant editing as the clock ticks down to twelve. For a motion picture with so little action, the suspense builds to almost unbearable levels." In his memoir, Williams states that this well-known montage was specifically edited to match the music composed for the scene by Dimitri Tiomkin.
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