Biography
Doane Harrison (19 September 1894 – 11 November 1968) was an American film editor whose career spanned four decades. He began working in the silent era and was a prolific editor at Paramount Pictures from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, including eleven films directed by Mitchell Leisen.
From 1941 to 1966 Harrison served as editor, supervising editor or associate producer on all the films directed by Billy Wilder. His credits in these roles include Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Stalag 17 (1953), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960). He received three Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, for Five Graves to Cairo (1943), The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard (shared with Arthur P. Schmidt). Later he acted as production consultant on Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
