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Edward Killy

Director · Born 1903-01-26 · Connecticut, USA

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Killy (January 26, 1903 – July 2, 1981) was an American director, assistant director and production manager in films and television. He was one of the few individuals to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Assistant Director. During his 30-year career he worked on over 75 films and television shows. Killy was born on January 26, 1903 in Connecticut. He entered the film industry as an assistant director at RKO Pictures, his first film being the 1931 musical comedy, Caught Plastered, directed by William Seiter, and starring the comedy duo of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. Over the next five years he assisted on over a dozen films, many of them notable films. In 1932 he was one of two assistants to George Cukor on the drama What Price Hollywood?, starring Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman. In 1933 he was one of several assistants to Dorothy Arzner on the melodrama Christopher Strong, which featured Katharine Hepburn in her first starring role. He'd work with Hepburn on two more films in 1933, Morning Glory (one of three assisting Lowell Sherman), and one of two assisting Cukor on the classic, Little Women. That ye…

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  1. Murder on a Bridle Path (1936) — Director
  2. Nevada (1944) — Director
  3. West of the Pecos (1945) — Director
  4. Bunker Bean (1936) — Director
  5. Wagon Train (1940) — Director
  6. The Fargo Kid (1940) — Director
  7. China Passage (1937) — Director
  8. The Big Game (1936) — Director
  9. Criminal Lawyer (1937) — Director
  10. Come on Danger (1942) — Director
  11. The Bandit Trail (1941) — Director
  12. Stage to Chino (1940) — Director
  13. Along the Rio Grande (1941) — Director
  14. Wanted: Jane Turner (1936) — Director
  15. Quick Money (1937) — Director
  16. Cyclone on Horseback (1941) — Director
  17. Robbers of the Range (1941) — Director
  18. Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945) — Director
  19. Saturday's Heroes (1937) — Director
  20. The Big Shot (1937) — Director
  21. Land of the Open Range (1942) — Director
  22. Freckles (1935) — Director
  23. Second Wife (1936) — Director
  24. Riding the Wind (1942) — Director