William Lyon (film editor)

William Austin Lyon was an American film editor, from 1934 to 1971.
He was born in Texas, and died in Los Angeles. Employed by Columbia Pictures for most of his career, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing six times, and won twice, for From Here to Eternity and Picnic.

Selected filmography

William Lyon began his career as an editor. Based on Lyon's filmography at the Internet Movie Database.

Year	Film	Director	Notes	Other notes
1936	Alibi for Murder	D. Ross Lederman	First collaboration with D. Ross Lederman
1936	Code of the Range	Charles C. Coleman	First collaboration with Charles C. Coleman
1936	The Cowboy Star	David Selman	First collaboration with David Selman
1937	Find the Witness	David Selman	Second collaboration with David Selman
1937	Trapped	Leon Barsha	First collaboration with Leon Barsha
1937	Two Gun Law	Leon Barsha	Second collaboration with Leon Barsha
1937	Two-Fisted Sheriff	Leon Barsha	Third collaboration with Leon Barsha
1937	One Man Justice	Leon Barsha	Fourth collaboration with Leon Barsha
1937	The Old Wyoming Trail	Folmar Blangsted
1937	I'll Take Romance	Edward H. Griffith
1937	Outlaws of the Prairie	Sam Nelson	First collaboration with Sam Nelson
1938	Call of the Rockies	Alan James
1938	West of Cheyenne	Sam Nelson	Second collaboration with Sam Nelson
1938	South of Arizona	Sam Nelson	Third collaboration with Sam Nelson
1938	The Colorado Trail	Sam Nelson	Fourth collaboration with Sam Nelson
1938	West of the Santa Fe	Sam Nelson	Fifth collaboration with Sam Nelson
1938	Rio Grande	Sam Nelson	Sixth collaboration with Sam Nelson
1939	The Thundering West	Sam Nelson	Seventh collaboration with Sam Nelson
1939	Texas Stampede	Sam Nelson	Eighth collaboration with Sam Nelson
1939	North of the Yukon	Sam Nelson	Ninth collaboration with Sam Nelson
1939	Spoilers of the Range	Charles C. Coleman	Second collaboration with Charles C. Coleman
1939	Western Caravans	Sam Nelson	Tenth collaboration with Sam Nelson
1939	The Man from Sundown	Sam Nelson	Eleventh collaboration with Sam Nelson
1939	The Man They Could Not Hang	Nick Grinde	First collaboration with Nick Grinde
1939	Riders of Black River	Norman Deming
1939	Scandal Sheet	Nick Grinde	Second collaboration with Nick Grinde
1939	My Son Is Guilty	Charles Barton	First collaboration with Charles Barton
1940	Too Many Husbands	Wesley Ruggles	First collaboration with Wesley Ruggles
1940	Arizona	Wesley Ruggles	Second collaboration with Wesley Ruggles
1940	The Phantom Submarine	Charles Barton	Second collaboration with Charles Barton
1941	Naval Academy	Erle C. Kenton
1941	Sweetheart of the Campus	Edward Dmytryk	First collaboration with Edward Dmytryk
1941	Texas	George Marshall
1941	Harvard, Here I Come	Lew Landers	First collaboration with Lew Landers
1942	Lawless Plainsmen	William Berke
1942	Tramp, Tramp, Tramp	Charles Barton	Third collaboration with Charles Barton
1942	Submarine Raider	Lew Landers	Second collaboration with Lew Landers
1942	Sabotage Squad	Lew Landers	Third collaboration with Lew Landers
1942	You Were Never Lovelier	William A. Seiter
1946	The Jolson Story	Alfred E. Green
1947	The Lone Wolf in Mexico	D. Ross Lederman	Second collaboration with D. Ross Lederman
1947	Mr. District Attorney	Robert B. Sinclair
1947	The Guilt of Janet Ames	Henry Levin	First collaboration with Henry Levin	Uncredited
1948	To the Ends of the Earth	Robert Stevenson
1949	The Walking Hills	John Sturges
1949	Jolson Sings Again	Henry Levin	Second collaboration with Henry Levin
1950	Cargo to Capetown	Earl McEvoy
1950	No Sad Songs for Me	Rudolph Maté
1950	The Fuller Brush Girl	Lloyd Bacon
1951	Saturday's Hero	David Miller	First collaboration with David Miller
1951	Ten Tall Men	Willis Goldbeck
1951	Death of a Salesman	László Benedek
1952	Thief of Damascus	Will Jason
1952	The Happy Time	Richard Fleischer
1952	The Member of the Wedding	Fred Zinnemann	First collaboration with Fred Zinnemann
1953	Fort Ti	William Castle	First collaboration with William Castle
1953	The 49th Man	Fred F. Sears
1953	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	Second collaboration with Fred Zinnemann
1953	Slaves of Babylon	William Castle	Second collaboration with William Castle
1954	The Caine Mutiny	Edward Dmytryk	Second collaboration with Edward Dmytryk
1955	The Long Gray Line	John Ford
1955	The Man from Laramie	Anthony Mann
1955	Count Three and Pray	George Sherman	First collaboration with George Sherman
1955	Picnic	Joshua Logan
1956	Storm Center	Daniel Taradash
1956	Nightfall	Jacques Tourneur
1957	The Shadow on the Window	William Asher
1957	The Garment Jungle	Vincent Sherman
1957	The Hard Man	George Sherman	Second collaboration with George Sherman
1958	Cowboy	Delmer Daves
1958	Me and the Colonel	Peter Glenville
1959	Gidget	Paul Wendkos	First collaboration with Paul Wendkos
1959	They Came to Cordura	Robert Rossen
1960	Song Without End	Charles Vidor
1960	Midnight Lace	David Miller	Second collaboration with David Miller	Uncredited
1961	A Raisin in the Sun	Daniel Petrie
1961	Gidget Goes Hawaiian	Paul Wendkos	Second collaboration with Paul Wendkos
1961	Sail a Crooked Ship	Irving Brecher
1962	Five Finger Exercise	Daniel Mann
1962	Diamond Head	Guy Green
1963	The Man from the Diners' Club	Frank Tashlin
1963	Gidget Goes to Rome	Paul Wendkos	Third collaboration with Paul Wendkos
1964	The Young Lovers	Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
1965	Major Dundee	Sam Peckinpah
1966	Lord Love a Duck	George Axelrod
1966	Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round	Bernard Girard
1967	Barefoot in the Park	Gene Saks
1969	The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Stanley Kramer	First collaboration with Stanley Kramer
1970	R. P. M.	Stanley Kramer	Second collaboration with Stanley Kramer
1971	Bless the Beasts and Children	Stanley Kramer	Third collaboration with Stanley Kramer

;Documentaries

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1943	Divide and Conquer		Uncredited

;Shorts

Year	Film	Director
1934	In the Dog House	Arthur Ripley
1935	Restless Knights	Charles Lamont
1935	His Bridal Sweet	Alfred J. Goulding
1935	Three Little Beers	Del Lord
1936	Unrelated Relations	Del Lord
1936	Ants in the Pantry	Preston Black
1936	Movie Maniacs	Del Lord
1936	The Peppery Salt	Del Lord
1936	Disorder in the Court	Preston Black
1936	A Pain in the Pullman	Preston Black
1936	Mister Smarty	Preston Black
1936	Fibbing Fibbers	Preston Black
1936	Slippery Silks	Preston Black
1957	Horsing Around	Jules White
1958	Quiz Whizz	Jules White

;TV series

Year	Title	Notes
1952	Cavalcade of America	1 episode