Owen Marks
Owen Marks was an English film editor who worked in the US.
Born in England, Marks spent time as a prizefighter before his film career began in 1928, when Warner Bros. contracted him as a film editor. He edited over 95 films during his tenure. He was nominated for the Academy Award for [Best Film Editing] for [Casablanca (film)|Casablanca] and [Janie (1944 film)|Janie], but did not win either time.
Marks died on September 18, 1960, in Los Angeles, California. His final films as editor, The Sins of Rachel Cade and [Parrish (film)|Parrish], were released posthumously in 1961.
Partial filmography
- The Midnight Taxi
- Powder My Back
- Land of the Silver Fox
- My Man
- The Hottentot
- Fancy Baggage
- Sonny Boy
- Say It with Songs
- Disraeli
- Mammy
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs
- Old English
- Divorce Among Friends
- Safe in Hell
- The Millionaire
- Alexander Hamilton
- The Hatchet Man
- Play Girl
- The Tenderfoot
- The Crash
- You Said a Mouthful
- The Working Man
- Convention City
- Voltaire
- Ever in My Heart
- Return of the Terror
- Upper World
- A Lost Lady
- The Secret Bride
- While the Patient Slept
- Traveling Saleslady
- The Girl from 10th Avenue
- We're [in the Money (film)|We're in the Money]
- Frisco Kid
- The Petrified Forest
- I Married a Doctor
- China Clipper
- Black Legion
- Slim
- It's Love I'm After
- Secrets of an Actress
- Love, Honor and Behave
- Angels with Dirty Faces
- The Oklahoma Kid
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
- The Fighting 69th
- Saturday's Children
- No Time for Comedy
- Footsteps [in the Dark (film)|Footsteps in the Dark]
- Affectionately Yours
- Blues in the Night
- Wings for the Eagle
- Casablanca
- Mission to Moscow
- Passage to Marseille
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Janie
- Pride of the Marines
- Escape in the Desert
- The Man I Love
- Nora Prentiss
- Deep Valley
- The [Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]
- Winter Meeting
- June Bride
- Colorado Territory
- White Heat
- Caged
- Bright Leaf
- The [West Point Story (film)|The West Point Story]
- Highway 301
- Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
- Force of Arms
- I'll See You in My Dreams
- Stop, You're Killing Me
- The Man Behind the Gun
- Trouble Along the Way
- Three Sailors and a Girl
- Lucky Me
- East of Eden
- The McConnell Story
- Sincerely Yours
- Santiago
- Darby's Rangers
- Lafayette Escadrille
- Too Much, Too Soon
- The Hanging Tree
- A [Summer Place (film)|A Summer Place]
- The Sins of Rachel Cade
- ''Parrish''