Albert Akst

Albert Akst
BornAugust 31, 1899
New Jersey
DiedApril 19, 1958 (aged 58)
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
OccupationFilm editor

Albert Akst (August 31, 1899 – April 19, 1958) was an American musician turned film editor, played saxophone in Meyer Davis Orchestra and in vaudeville until 1930. He became a film cutter of short subjects and later became an editor on 53 feature films, including Forbidden Passage, Johnny Eager, Ziegfeld Follies, Summer Stock, Brigadoon and Meet Me in Las Vegas. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Somebody Up There Likes Me.[1]

Akst was born in New Jersey and died in Los Angeles, California.

Selected filmography

Year Title Director
1932 Flaming Guns Arthur Rosson
1933 The Rustler's Roundup Henry MacRae
1934 Tailspin Tommy Lew Landers
1935 A Notorious Gentleman Edward Laemmle
1935 Princess O'Hara David Burton
1935 The Raven[2] Lew Landers
1935 Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery Ray Taylor
1939 Home Early Roy Rowland
1939 One Against the World[3] Fred Zinnemann
1939 Drunk Driving David Miller
1940 That Inferior Feeling Basil Wrangell
1941 Your Last Act[3] Richard Duce
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis[4] Vincente Minnelli

References

  1. ^ "Albert Akst". IMDb. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Nollen, Scott Allen; Nollen, Yuyun Yuningsih. Karloff and the East: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career. McFarland Incorporated. p. 358. ISBN 9781476640860.
  3. ^ a b Zinnemann, Fred (2005). Miller, Gabriel (ed.). Fred Zinnemann, interviews. Conversations with filmmakers series. Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-698-8.
  4. ^ Naremore, James; Minnelli, Vincente (1993). The films of Vincente Minnelli. Cambridge film classics (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-521-38770-5.


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