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name: "Charles Nelson"
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born: "15 April 1901"
died: "19 January 1997"
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# Charles Nelson

Editor. Born 15 April 1901 in Sweden. Died 19 January 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 15 April 1901, Sweden
- **Died:** 19 January 1997
- **Active:** 1950–1955
- **Frequently works with:** [William Holden](https://film.one/person/william-holden.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nelson_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065612, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625224/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20601

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Born Yesterday*](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md) (76)

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## Biography

Charles Nelson was a film editor. Born on 15 April 1901 in Grängesberg, Sweden, he worked primarily in Hollywood and was under contract at Columbia Pictures from 1942 to 1967.

He edited numerous films including *Gilda* (1946), *Born Yesterday* (1950), *The Big Heat* (1953), *Picnic* (1955) and *Cat Ballou* (1965). Nelson won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for *Picnic* and received nominations for *A Song to Remember* (1945) and *Cat Ballou*.

He was a member of the American Cinema Editors and died on 19 January 1997 in Los Angeles, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Picnic* (1955), Fi1m 63, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/picnic.md)
- *Born Yesterday* (1950), Fi1m 76, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md)

## Complete filmography (88)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Barquero* (1970), Editor
- *The Sergeant* (1968), Supervising Film Editor
- *On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...* (1967), Editor
- *Enter Laughing* (1967), Editor
- *The Silencers* (1966), Editor
- *Cat Ballou* (1965), Editor
- *Good Neighbor Sam* (1964), Editor
- *Under the Yum Yum Tree* (1963), Editor
- *Bye Bye Birdie* (1963), Editor
- *The Notorious Landlady* (1962), Editor
- *The Wackiest Ship in the Army* (1960), Editor
- *Strangers When We Meet* (1960), Editor
- *The Last Angry Man* (1959), Editor
- *It Happened to Jane* (1959), Editor
- *Bell, Book and Candle* (1958), Editor
- *Me and the Colonel* (1958), Editor
- *Ghost of the China Sea* (1958), Editor
- *Return to Warbow* (1958), Editor
- *The Brothers Rico* (1957), Editor
- *Operation Mad Ball* (1957), Editor
- *The Man Who Turned to Stone* (1957), Editor
- *Utah Blaine* (1957), Editor
- *Full of Life* (1956), Editor
- *The Solid Gold Cadillac* (1956), Editor
- *Three Stripes in the Sun* (1955), Editor
- *Picnic* (1955), Editor — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/picnic.md)
- *My Sister Eileen* (1955), Editor
- *Phffft* (1954), Editor
- *Battle of Rogue River* (1954), Editor
- *It Should Happen to You* (1954), Editor
- *Prisoners of the Casbah* (1953), Editor
- *The Big Heat* (1953), Editor
- *Let's Do It Again* (1953), Editor
- *Assignment: Paris* (1952), Editor
- *The Marrying Kind* (1952), Editor
- *Man in the Saddle* (1951), Editor
- *The Mob* (1951), Editor
- *Criminal Lawyer* (1951), Editor
- *Two of a Kind* (1951), Editor
- *Born Yesterday* (1950), Editor — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md)
- *Stage to Tucson* (1950), Editor
- *Kill the Umpire* (1950), Editor
- *A Woman of Distinction* (1950), Editor
- *Tell It to the Judge* (1949), Editor
- *Anna Lucasta* (1949), Editor
- *The Doolins of Oklahoma* (1949), Editor
- *The Loves of Carmen* (1948), Editor
- *The Man from Colorado* (1948), Editor
- *The Guilt of Janet Ames* (1947), Editor
- *The Thrill of Brazil* (1946), Editor
- *Renegades* (1946), Editor
- *The Man Who Dared* (1946), Editor
- *Gilda* (1946), Editor
- *Kiss and Tell* (1945), Editor
- *Counter-Attack* (1945), Editor
- *A Song to Remember* (1945), Editor
- *None Shall Escape* (1944), Editor
- *Sahara* (1943), Editor
- *A Night to Remember* (1942), Editor
- *The Lone Prairie* (1942), Editor
- *Blondie's Blessed Event* (1942), Editor
- *Blondie in Society* (1941), Editor
- *Her First Beau* (1941), Editor
- *The Face Behind the Mask* (1941), Editor
- *Girls Under 21* (1940), Editor
- *Before I Hang* (1940), Editor
- *Girls of the Road* (1940), Editor
- *The Man from Tumbleweeds* (1940), Editor
- *Two-Fisted Rangers* (1939), Editor
- *Three Sappy People* (1939), Editor
- *Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise* (1939), Editor
- *Calling All Curs* (1939), Editor
- *Pest from the West* (1939), Editor
- *Yes, We Have No Bonanza* (1939), Editor
- *A Ducking They Did Go* (1939), Editor
- *We Want Our Mummy* (1939), Editor
- *Three Little Sew and Sews* (1939), Editor
- *Three Missing Links* (1938), Editor
- *Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb* (1938), Editor
- *Wee Wee Monsieur* (1938), Editor
- *The Sitter Downers* (1937), Editor
- *Cash and Carry* (1937), Editor
- *Goofs and Saddles* (1937), Editor
- *From Bad to Worse* (1937), Editor
- *Back to the Woods* (1937), Editor
- *3 Dumb Clucks* (1937), Editor
- *Dizzy Doctors* (1937), Editor
- *Grips, Grunts and Groans* (1937), Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- 1966: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Cat Ballou*
- 1956: Best Film Editing (won), for *Picnic*
- 1946: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *A Song to Remember*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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