Frank Mazzola

Frank Mazzola was an American actor and film editor.

Career

Mazzola was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was in movies in the silent era. As a child and young adult, Mazzola worked as an actor. In 1955, he acted in Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean, Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood, and Dennis Hopper. He played "Crunch," a minor character, and was one of the last surviving cast members from that film.
In 1966, Mazzola started editing films; he edited Performance, The Hired Hand, Demon Seed, The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud, and Wild Side, among others. He worked with director Donald Cammell on three of his four feature films. Mazzola pioneered the non-linear editing style in Performance and other Cammell films, as well as the lyrical style that is found in The Hired Hand;
he also edited the well-received "director's cut" of Wild Side that was released four years after Cammell's 1996 death.
Mazzola died on January 13, 2015, at the age of 79.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1939	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Child Extra	Uncredited
1942	Always in My Heart	Boy	Uncredited
1942	Casablanca	Moroccan Boy	Uncredited
1948	The Boy with Green Hair	Boy	Uncredited
1953	Torch Song	Merle	Uncredited
1955	East of Eden	Student	Uncredited
1955	Rebel Without a Cause	Crunch
1956	Hot Blood	Gypsy	Uncredited
1957	The Way to the Gold	Teenager