Mark Robson
| Mark Robson | |
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| Born |
4 December 1913 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 20 June 1978 (aged 64) London, England, UK |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Resting place | Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Education | Roslyn High School Westmount High School |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Los Angeles Pacific Coast University School of Law |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, editor |
| Years active | 1941–1978 |
Mark Robson (4 December 1913 – 20 June 1978) was a Canadian-born film director, producer and editor. Robson began his 45-year career in Hollywood as a film editor. He later began working as a director and producer. He directed thirty-four films during his career including The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955), Peyton Place (1957), for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, Von Ryan's Express (1965) and Valley of the Dolls (1967).
Robson died of a heart attack after shooting his final film, Avalanche Express, in 1978. The film was released a year after his death.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he attended Roslyn High School and Westmount High School in Montreal. He later studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and Pacific Coast University School of Law. Robson then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor.
In 1940 he worked as an assistant to Robert Wise on the editing of Citizen Kane in addition to several other films. Both he and Wise benefited tremendously from producer and screenwriter Val Lewton, who promoted Robson from film editor to production assistant and later to director. In 1943, at the insistence of Lewton, Robson assisted Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur in a series of low-budget horror films produced by Val Lewton, including Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie. Later, Lewton was instrumental in promoting Robson to the director's chair for films such as The Seventh Victim (1943), Robson's first directing credit and the troubled Isle of the Dead (1945).
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