Rudi Fehr
| Rudi Fehr | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Rudolf Alexander Fehr July 6, 1911 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | April 16, 1999 (aged 87) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Film editor & executive |
| Years active | 1931–1985 |
| Spouse(s) | Maris Wrixon (1940-1999) |
| Children | Kaja Fehr |
Rudolf “Rudi” Fehr, A.C.E. (July 6, 1911 – April 16, 1999) was a German-born, American film editor and studio executive. He had more than thirty credits as an editor of feature films including Key Largo (1946), Dial M for Murder (1954), and Prizzi's Honor (1985). He worked for more than forty years for the Warner Brothers film studio, where he was the Head of Post-production from 1955 through 1976. Fehr was instrumental in establishing the 1967 "sister city" connection between Los Angeles and Berlin, which he had fled in the 1930s.
Fehr was born in Berlin, Germany. He aspired to become a diplomat or a musician, but was recruited into the film industry, and edited his first film, Der Schlemihl, in 1931; he was just 20 years old. He then worked for several years with the producer Sam Spiegel, including work in Austria and England. In 1933 he edited the French language film Le Tunnel, which was directed by Curtis Bernhardt. In 1935 he worked on the editing of the Buster Keaton film The Invader.
In 1936, Fehr fled the Nazi regime in Germany and moved to United States. He landed a job at the Warner Brothers film studio in Hollywood, where he initially worked to substitute English sound tracks on two films for the original German ones. He soon became an assistant editor to Warren Low. His first Hollywood editing credit was for the film My Love Came Back (1940); the film was directed by Curtis Bernhardt, who had worked with Fehr seven years earlier on Le Tunnel. For the next fifteen years Fehr edited dozens of studio films, including A Stolen Life (directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Bette Davis, 1946) and Key Largo (directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, and introducing Lauren Bacall, 1948).
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