Gene Milford

Arthur Eugene Milford (January 19, 1902 – December 23, 1991) was an American film and television editor with about one hundred feature film credits. Among his most noted films are Lost Horizon (directed by Frank Capra - 1937), On the Waterfront (directed by Elia Kazan - 1954), A Face in the Crowd (Kazan - 1957), and Wait Until Dark (directed by Terence Young - 1967).

Milford won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Lost Horizon (with Gene Havlick) and for On the Waterfront; he was also nominated for an Academy Award for One Night of Love (directed by Victor Schertzinger - 1934). He had been elected to the American Cinema Editors, and he and Barbara McLean received its inaugural Career Achievement Awards in 1988.

Partial filmography



 * 1926: Two Can Play
 * 1927: Say It with Diamonds
 * 1927: Ladies at Ease
 * 1928: The Devil's Cage
 * 1928: Life's Mockery
 * 1930: Around the Corner
 * 1931: Branded
 * 1932: Sundown Rider
 * 1932: Forbidden Trail
 * 1933: My Woman
 * 1933: The California Trail
 * 1934: The Ninth Guest
 * 1934: The Man Trailer
 * 1934: One Night of Love
 * 1934: The Captain Hates the Sea
 * 1935: Let's Live Tonight
 * 1935: Grand Exit
 * 1936: Shakedown
 * 1936: The Music Goes 'Round
 * 1936: They Met in a Taxi
 * 1937: Lost Horizon
 * 1939: I Was a Convict
 * 1939: Coast Guard
 * 1941: Tillie the Toiler
 * 1944: The Falcon Out West
 * 1945: Having Wonderful Crime
 * 1954: On the Waterfront (Kazan)
 * 1956: Baby Doll (Kazan)
 * 1957: A Face in the Crowd (Kazan)
 * 1960: The Pusher
 * 1961 Splendor in the Grass (Kazan)
 * 1962: Taras Bulba
 * 1966: The Chase (Penn)
 * 1967: Wait Until Dark
 * 1970: There Was a Crooked Man... (Mankiewicz)
 * 1973: The Man Without a Country
 * 1974: W