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Aaron Stell
Aaron Stell
Born	March 26, 1911; Pennsylvania, United States
Died	January 7, 1996 (aged 84); Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Film editor

Aaron Stell (March 26, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was an American film editor with one hundred feature film credits and many additional credits for his television work. Stell worked for more than a decade at the start of his career at Columbia Pictures (1943–1955 credits), which was a major Hollywood studio in that era. Among his most noted films are Touch of Evil (directed by Orson Welles-1958), To Kill a Mockingbird (directed by Robert Mulligan-1962), and Silent Running (directed by Douglas Trumbull-1972).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Touch of Evil, which was directed by Orson Welles, proved difficult for Stell; he was not the initial editor but instead chosen for re-editing, and he noted that Welles became "ill, depressed, and unhappy with the studio's impatience" in the process.^[4]

Stell had been selected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. He was nominated for the American Cinema Editors Eddie award for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He was also nominated for Eddies for his television work on an episode of Ben Casey (1961) and on the mini-series Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980). In 1996 he shared the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award with Desmond Marquette.

Stell died in Los Angeles at age 84.^[5]

Selected filmography

Prison Ship (1945)
Terror Trail (1946)
Blondie Knows Best (1946)
The Son of Rusty (1947)
The Last Round-up (1947)
Sport of Kings (1947)
Customs Agent (1950)
Beauty on Parade (1950)
Gasoline Alley (1951)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

References

^ John Howard Reid (2005). Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties. Lulu.com. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-1-4116-3524-1.
^ "BFI profile: Aaron Stell". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-07-14.
^ Kermode, Mark (2014). Silent Running. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 59. ISBN 9781844578344. The finished sequence, which relies on Schikele's intelligently counterpoised score, is a masterclass in editing, with Aaron Stell moving deftly between detailed close-ups of the mechanical arms and intense shots of Dern's pained and sometimes terrified reaction ....
^ Charles Higham (8 March 2004). The Films of Orson Welles. University of California Press. pp. 150–151. GGKEY:9FNTB9F9DXZ.
^ "STELL, Aaron age 84". Los Angeles Times. January 9, 1996. Retrieved May 23, 2023.