Ralph E. Winters

Ralph E. Winters
Ralph E. Winters and Susan Hayward (1961)
Born	(1909-06-17)June 17, 1909 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	February 26, 2004(2004-02-26) (aged 94) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	film editor
Years active	1941–1995
Spouse(s)	Lulu Winters (1988 - February 26, 2004) (his death) Teddy (February 9, 1935 - 1985) (her death) 3 children

Lulu Winters (1988 - February 26, 2004) (his death)

Ralph E. Winters (June 17, 1909 – February 26, 2004) was a Canadian-born film editor who became one of the leading figures of this field in the American industry.

After beginning on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first major film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller Gaslight (1944).

Winters won the Academy Award for Film Editing twice, for King Solomon's Mines (1950) and Ben-Hur (1959). He received four other nominations, for Quo Vadis (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), The Great Race (1965) and Kotch (1971). Among Winters other projects were such leading films as On the Town (1949), High Society (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).

Winters had a notable collaboration with director Blake Edwards. Over twenty years, they collaborated on twelve films together, including The Pink Panther (1963), The Party (1968), 10 (1979) and Victor Victoria (1982). His last film was the ill-fated pirate epic Cutthroat Island released in 1995.