Rudi Fehr (July 6, 1911 - April 16, 1999) was a film editor whose credits include House of Wax (1953), I Confess (1953), Dial M for Murder (1954). After a long hiatus, Fehr returned to edit One from the Heart (1982) and the John Huston-directed Prizzi's Honor (1985), for which he was nominated for an Oscar, along with Kaja Fehr. In 1993 he received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.
Fehr was born in Berlin, Germany. He decided ...
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Rudi Fehr (July 6, 1911 - April 16, 1999) was a film editor whose credits include House of Wax (1953), I Confess (1953), Dial M for Murder (1954). After a long hiatus, Fehr returned to edit One from the Heart (1982) and the John Huston-directed Prizzi's Honor (1985), for which he was nominated for an Oscar, along with Kaja Fehr. In 1993 he received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.
Fehr was born in Berlin, Germany. He decided upon a career in the film industry, and edited his first film, Der Schlemiel, in 1931. He then worked for several years with the producer Sam Spiegel, moving from Germany to Austria and England to avoid the restrictions of the Nazi regime. In 1935 he edited the Buster Keaton film The Invader. In 1936, Fehr moved to Hollywood, and landed a job with the Warner Brothers Studio, where he became an assistant editor to Warren Low. His first Hollywood editing credit was for the film My Love Came Back (1940). For the next fifteen years Fehr edited...
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