Gene Milford (1902–1991) 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 received its inaugural Career Achievement Award in 1988.
Twice Oscar-winning Hollywood editor (Lost Horizon (1937) and On the Waterfront (1954)) Arthur Eugene Milford began in Hollywood as a stuntman and title writer. His first work in the cutting rooms dates back to 1926 and three years later, he was signed by Columbia as full-time editor. After leaving the studio in 1940, he was appointed successively head of the film editorial departments of the Office of War Information and of the Atomic Energy Commission at Lookout Mountain. He resumed motion picture work in 1943 under contract first at RKO and, subsequently, at Republic.
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From 1955 to 1961, Milford served as president of M-K-R where he directed and edited 15 medical and scientific documentaries, many for TV. He was one of the first two recipients of the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.
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