Otho Lovering(1892-1968)
- Editor
- Director
- Writer
Veteran film editor Otho Lovering was born in Philadelphia, PA, in
1892. In his late 20s he he got a job at Vitagraph Pictures in New York
as a lowly production assistant, but became an editor in the 1920s. He
went to work as an editor for Paramount Pictures, which showed its
gratitude for the outstanding work he did for them by letting him
direct several westerns in the mid-'30s. Although he worked on a lot of
low-budget westerns and action pictures, he also edited quite a few
films that are regarded as among the finest ever to come out of
Hollywood, including
Stagecoach (1939),
Story of G.I. Joe (1945) and
Cheyenne Autumn (1964).
