---
name: "Doane Harrison"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/doane-harrison"
fi1m_id: "doane-harrison"
imdb_id: "nm0365561"
tmdb_id: 3159
wikidata_id: "Q1233096"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "19 September 1894"
died: "11 November 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 90
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T04:51:15.293056+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Doane Harrison

## Identity

Doane Harrison

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/doane-harrison
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** doane-harrison
- **IMDb ID:** nm0365561
- **TMDB ID:** 3159
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1233096
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doane_Harrison, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1233096, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3159

Producer. Born 19 September 1894 in Paw Paw, Michigan, USA. Died 11 November 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 19 September 1894, Paw Paw, Michigan, USA
- **Died:** 11 November 1968
- **Active:** 1941–1960
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 8: 3 producing, 5 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Billy Wilder](https://film.one/person/billy-wilder.md), [Charles Brackett](https://film.one/person/charles-brackett.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 3 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 90, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 84 (3), 1950s 89 (4), 1960s 91 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 90 to 87 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Crime 2, Drama 2, Romance 2, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $59m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doane_Harrison, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1233096, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3159

## 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).

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

## On Fi1m (8)

### Produced (3) — the average rests on these

- *The Apartment* (1960), Fi1m 91, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-apartment.md)
- *Some Like It Hot* (1959), Fi1m 92, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/some-like-it-hot.md)
- *Witness for the Prosecution* (1957), Fi1m 87, Production Assistant — [page](https://film.one/film/witness-for-the-prosecution.md)

### Crew (5)

- *Ace in the Hole* (1951), Fi1m 87, Supervising Film Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/ace-in-the-hole.md)
- *Sunset Boulevard* (1950), Fi1m 91, Supervising Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/sunset-boulevard.md)
- *The Lost Weekend* (1945), Fi1m 82, Editor, Editorial Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-weekend.md)
- *Double Indemnity* (1944), Fi1m 92, Editor, Supervising Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/double-indemnity.md)
- *Hold Back the Dawn* (1941), Fi1m 78, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/hold-back-the-dawn.md)

## Complete filmography (63)

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

- *The Fortune Cookie* (1966), Producer
- *Kiss Me, Stupid* (1964), Associate Producer
- *My Six Loves* (1963), Associate Producer
- *Irma la Douce* (1963), Producer
- *Convicts 4* (1962), Producer's Assistant
- *One, Two, Three* (1961), Associate Producer
- *The Apartment* (1960), Associate Producer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/the-apartment.md)
- *Some Like It Hot* (1959), Associate Producer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/some-like-it-hot.md)
- *The Girl Most Likely* (1958), Editor
- *Witness for the Prosecution* (1957), Production Assistant — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/witness-for-the-prosecution.md)
- *Love in the Afternoon* (1957), Associate Producer
- *China Gate* (1957), Editor
- *Tension at Table Rock* (1956), Editor
- *The Seven Year Itch* (1955), Associate Producer
- *The Sea Around Us* (1953), Editor
- *Stalag 17* (1953), Editorial Consultant
- *Ace in the Hole* (1951), Supervising Film Editor — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/ace-in-the-hole.md)
- *Mr. Music* (1950), Editor
- *Sunset Boulevard* (1950), Supervising Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/sunset-boulevard.md)
- *Miss Tatlock's Millions* (1948), Editor
- *A Foreign Affair* (1948), Editor
- *Ladies' Man* (1947), Editor
- *Our Hearts Were Growing Up* (1946), Editor
- *The Lost Weekend* (1945), Editorial Manager, Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-weekend.md)
- *The Unseen* (1945), Supervising Editor
- *Double Indemnity* (1944), Editor, Supervising Editor — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/double-indemnity.md)
- *The Uninvited* (1944), Editor
- *Five Graves to Cairo* (1943), Editor
- *The Crystal Ball* (1943), Editor
- *The Major and the Minor* (1942), Editor
- *Beyond the Blue Horizon* (1942), Editor
- *New York Town* (1941), Editor
- *Hold Back the Dawn* (1941), Editor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/hold-back-the-dawn.md)
- *Arise, My Love* (1940), Editor
- *Dancing on a Dime* (1940), Editor
- *Golden Gloves* (1940), Editor
- *Remember the Night* (1940), Editor
- *Midnight* (1939), Editor
- *Artists and Models Abroad* (1938), Editor
- *Thrill of a Lifetime* (1937), Editor
- *Easy Living* (1937), Editor
- *Internes Can't Take Money* (1937), Editor
- *Let's Make a Million* (1936), Editor
- *The Texas Rangers* (1936), Editor
- *13 Hours by Air* (1936), Editor
- *Four Hours to Kill!* (1935), Editor
- *The Sphinx* (1933), Editor
- *This Thing Called Love* (1929), Editor
- *The Racketeer* (1929), Editor
- *Big News* (1929), Editor
- *The Sophomore* (1929), Editor
- *The Leatherneck* (1929), Editor
- *The Shady Lady* (1928), Editor
- *The Cavalier* (1928), Editor
- *Man-Made Women* (1928), Editor
- *Celebrity* (1928), Editor
- *The Better Man* (1926), Editor
- *The Broadway Gallant* (1926), Editor
- *The Night Patrol* (1926), Editor
- *The Blue Streak* (1926), Editor
- *The Fighting Demon* (1925), Editor
- *Youth and Adventure* (1925), Editor
- *A Prince of a King* (1923), Editor

## Gallery

- ![Doane Harrison](https://film.one/media/person/103496/gallery-04c454ba0734.jpg) Doane Harrison — unknown (Paramount Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Doane_Harrison.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![L. to R. : Charles Brackett (screenwriter), Billy Wilder (director) & Doane Harrison (editor) - publicity still (on the set of The Major and the Minor (1942](https://film.one/media/person/103496/gallery-476c3721bac5.jpg) L. to R. : Charles Brackett (screenwriter), Billy Wilder (director) & Doane Harrison (editor) - publicity still (on the set of The Major and the Minor (1942 — unknown (Paramount Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Brackett-Wilder-Harrison_still.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 3 nominated

- 1951: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Sunset Boulevard*
- 1946: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Lost Weekend*
- 1944: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Five Graves to Cairo*

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

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