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Elmo Williams is a Director, Associate Producer, Second Unit Director and Editor American born on 30 april 1913 at Lone Wolf (USA)

Elmo Williams

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Birth name James Elmo Williams
Nationality USA
Birth 30 april 1913 (110 years) at Lone Wolf (USA)

James Elmo Williams (born April 30, 1913) is an American film and television editor, director, producer, and executive. His work on the film High Noon (1952) received the Academy Award for Film Editing. In 2006, Williams published Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir.

Biography

Producteur, éditeur de film, assistant réalisateur, il produira notamment Tora ! Tora ! Tora !, un film de guerre.

Réalisateur seconde équipe sur Les Vikings de Richard Fleischer, il dirige de très bons acteurs comme Jim Davis et Robert Stack.

En 1940, il se marie avec Lorraine Williams (décédée en 2004). Ils ont adopté deux filles et un garçon.

Il fera le montage de Le train sifflera trois fois (High noon) de Fred Zinneman et de 20 000 lieues sous les mers.

En 1983, le couple s'est retraité à Brookings, dans le sud de l'Oregon. En 2008, Williams fit don d'une chapelle à la ville en mémoire de sa femme.

Best films

Cleopatra (1963)
(Editor)
The Longest Day (1962)
(Associate Producer)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
(Producer)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
(Editor)
The Blue Max (1966)
(Executive producer)
High Noon (1952)
(Editor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Elmo Williams (30 films)

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Director

The Big Gamble, 1h38
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Elmo Williams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Trucker films, Children's films
Actors Stephen Boyd, Juliette Gréco, David Wayne, Gregory Ratoff, Sybil Thorndike, Jacques Marin
Rating58% 2.905232.905232.905232.905232.90523
Vic Brennan is a sailor from Dublin who decides to use his family's fortune and move to Africa to open a truck-hauling business. He is accompanied by his wife, Marie, and a meek cousin, Samuel, who loses their documents, causing customs agents to seize some of their cargo.
Hell Ship Mutiny
Directed by Elmo Williams
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jon Hall, John Carradine, Peter Lorre, Mike Mazurki, Charles Mauu, Stanley Adams
Rating50% 2.500592.500592.500592.500592.50059
Captain Jim Knight, and his crew Roxy, Tula and a chimp named Salty sail the South Seas in search of adventure. They discover a criminal gang has taken over a small island forcing the native pearl divers to dive beyond safe limits.

Producer

Ernest Goes to Camp, 1h32
Directed by John R. Cherry III
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Jim Varney, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody, Gailard Sartain, Scott Menville, Jacob Vargas
Roles Executive Producer
Rating54% 2.7485852.7485852.7485852.7485852.748585
A pow wow opening features a medicine man tossing a knife and tomahawk at a young brave warrior to test his faith in the Great One and true courage. He also shoots an arrow at him to test his purity of heart. Jim Varney reprises his role of Ernest P. Worrell, working as a maintenance man at Kamp Kikakee and hoping to become a counselor. With his typical enthusiasm, he pours himself into the role and quickly becomes a valuable addition to the staff, in particular for his passion at learning the specialized sign language used by Kikakee's owner, Chief St. Cloud (Iron Eyes Cody), who does not speak English.
Caravans
Caravans (1978)
, 2h7
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin, Christopher Lee, Jennifer O'Neill, Joseph Cotten, Behrouz Vossoughi
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.95092.95092.95092.95092.9509
The story is set in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Zadestan in 1948. Mark Miller is stationed at the U.S. Embassy in the fictional city of Kashkhan and is assigned to investigate the disappearance of and locate a young woman, Ellen Jasper, the daughter of a United States Senator, who vanished after her marriage to Colonel Nazrullah several months previously. Nazrullah is desperate to find her and becomes defensive when Miller asks about her. By law, Ellen has given up her rights as an American by becoming his wife. Miller traces her to a band of nomads who are running illegal guns. She doesn't want to leave, being estranged from both her parents and her husband. Miller doesn't want to return without proof she's alive and OK, which she refuses to give. Nazrullah lures the gun-runners into a trap. He separates Miller from the nomads and asks his wife to return to him but she refuses. Ellen at last gives Miller a note for her family. As the nomads leave, Nazrullah orders his troops to fire on them and Ellen is killed trying to rescue a child. A heart-broken Nazrullah carries away the body of his dead wife.
Tora! Tora! Tora!, 2h24
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Jason Robards
Roles Producer
Rating74% 3.7476553.7476553.7476553.7476553.747655
In 1941, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) and his predecessor, Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami), discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto orders the planning of a preventive strike, believing Japan's only hope is to annihilate the American Pacific fleet at the outset of hostilities.
The Blue Max, 2h36
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Karl Michael Vogler, Harry Townes
Roles Executive producer
Rating70% 3.5472953.5472953.5472953.5472953.547295
German Corporal Bruno Stachel (George Peppard) leaves the fighting in the trenches to become an officer and fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service. Joining a squadron in spring 1918, he sets his sights on winning Imperial Germany's highest military decoration for valor, the Pour le Mérite, nicknamed the "Blue Max", for which he must shoot down 20 aircraft.
The Agony and the Ecstasy, 2h18
Directed by Carol Reed, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Peinture, Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi
Roles Executive Producer
Rating70% 3.54853.54853.54853.54853.5485
Michelangelo Buonarroti, a sculptor from Florence, is first commissioned to craft the Pope's tomb in Rome. Instead, Pope Julius II orders him to paint frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling depicting the Twelve Apostles. After his first attempt at painting the Apostles, he destroys his work and flees to Carrara to quarry Carrara marble. He evades the pope's guard and flees into the mountains, where he becomes inspired.
The Longest Day, 2h51
Directed by Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Radio, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Patrick Barr, Richard Burton, Lyndon Brook, Robert Mitchum
Roles Associate Producer
Rating76% 3.8493.8493.8493.8493.849
The movie is filmed in the style of a docudrama. Beginning in the days leading up to D-Day, it concentrates on events on both sides of the channel, such as the Allies waiting for the break in the poor weather and anticipating the reaction of the Axis forces defending northern France. The film pays particular attention to the decision by Gen. Eisenhower, supreme commander of SHAEF, to go after reviewing the initial bad-weather reports as well as reports about the divisions within the German High Command as to where an invasion might happen or what the response to it should be.

Director

The Longest Day, 2h51
Directed by Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Radio, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Patrick Barr, Richard Burton, Lyndon Brook, Robert Mitchum
Roles Second Unit Director
Rating76% 3.8493.8493.8493.8493.849
The movie is filmed in the style of a docudrama. Beginning in the days leading up to D-Day, it concentrates on events on both sides of the channel, such as the Allies waiting for the break in the poor weather and anticipating the reaction of the Axis forces defending northern France. The film pays particular attention to the decision by Gen. Eisenhower, supreme commander of SHAEF, to go after reviewing the initial bad-weather reports as well as reports about the divisions within the German High Command as to where an invasion might happen or what the response to it should be.
The Vikings, 1h56
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the Viking Age
Actors Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Roles Second Unit Director
Rating69% 3.4997253.4997253.4997253.4997253.499725
The King of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by the fearsome Ragnar (Ernest Borgnine). Because the king had died childless, his cousin Aella (Frank Thring) takes the throne. The king's widow, however, is pregnant with what she knows is Ragnar's child because he had raped her during that fateful raid, and to protect the infant from her cousin-in-law's ambitions, she sends him off to Italy. By a twist of fate, the ship is intercepted by the Vikings, who are unaware of the child's kinship, and enslave him.

Editor

Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1963)
, 4h8
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn
Roles Editor
Rating70% 3.500673.500673.500673.500673.50067
After the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey, Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). The Romans hold, and the armies of Mithridates arrive on Egyptian soil. The following day, Caesar passes judgment. He sentences Ptolemy's lord chamberlain to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra. Cleopatra is crowned Queen of Egypt. She dreams of ruling the world with Caesar. When their son Caesarion is born, Caesar accepts him publicly, which becomes the talk of Rome and the Senate.
The Vikings, 1h56
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the Viking Age
Actors Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Roles Supervising Editor
Rating69% 3.4997253.4997253.4997253.4997253.499725
The King of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by the fearsome Ragnar (Ernest Borgnine). Because the king had died childless, his cousin Aella (Frank Thring) takes the throne. The king's widow, however, is pregnant with what she knows is Ragnar's child because he had raped her during that fateful raid, and to protect the infant from her cousin-in-law's ambitions, she sends him off to Italy. By a twist of fate, the ship is intercepted by the Vikings, who are unaware of the child's kinship, and enslave him.
Hell Ship Mutiny
Directed by Elmo Williams
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jon Hall, John Carradine, Peter Lorre, Mike Mazurki, Charles Mauu, Stanley Adams
Rating50% 2.500592.500592.500592.500592.50059
Captain Jim Knight, and his crew Roxy, Tula and a chimp named Salty sail the South Seas in search of adventure. They discover a criminal gang has taken over a small island forcing the native pearl divers to dive beyond safe limits.