Hugh S. Fowler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American film editor
Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1912
Place of Birth: Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 02-Aug-1975
Profession: film editor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Hugh S. Fowler
- Hugh S.
- Fowler (July 24, 1912 in Missouri – August 2, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) was an American film editor with about 38 feature film credits from 1952 – 1972.
- He was named after his Grandmother, Mary Ann Stirling, whose family occupied the Stirling Castle in Scotland for 400 years.
- She married William Kirk Fowler of Auchtermuchty, County Fife and they emigrated to the US in 1852. Fowler spent his virtually his entire editing career at Twentieth Century-Fox.
- After spending years helping other film editors, including Louis Loeffler, Barbara McLean, William H.
- Reynolds and Robert Simpson, Fowler was promoted to film editor full-time in 1952; his first movie as a film editor was Phone Call from a Stranger, released that year and directed by Jean Negulesco.
- Although he edited only 38 movies in a 20-year career, all of them Twentieth releases, he edited some of the greatest scenes in the studio's history.
- Two of them involved the same actress, Marilyn Monroe: her performance of the song "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (directed by Howard Hawks - 1953) and her blown-skirt scene in The Seven Year Itch (directed by Billy Wilder-1955). It was not until eight years after Monroe's death that Fowler won his Oscar, for the movie Patton (1970).
- His final movie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), was directed by John Huston.
- Fowler died in California three years later.
- Fowler is remembered for editing primarily Twentieth theatrical releases directed by freelancers, including Howard Hawks (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Franklin J.
- Schaffner (Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton), Frank Tashlin (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)) and Billy Wilder (The Seven Year Itch).
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