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name: "Frank Bracht"
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roles: ["Editor"]
born: "7 January 1910"
died: "26 September 1985"
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average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 2
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# Frank Bracht

Editor. Born 7 January 1910 in Idaho, USA. Died 26 September 1985.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 7 January 1910, Idaho, USA
- **Died:** 26 September 1985
- **Active:** 1942–1950
- **Also known as:** Frank B. Bracht
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 73 (1), 1950s 93 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bracht, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15454521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16751

## Biography

Frank Bracht (also credited as Frank B. Bracht) was an American film editor. He began his career at Paramount Pictures in the late 1920s and received his first credited editing role on *Wake Island* (1942). He worked as an assistant editor on earlier films including *Birth of the Blues* (1941) and *Sunset Boulevard* (1950).

Bracht edited numerous Paramount productions across several decades, including *White Christmas* (1954), *Funny Face* (1957), *Houseboat* (1958), *Hud* (1963), *Hombre* (1967), *The Odd Couple* (1968), *The Molly Maguires* (1970) and *Mandingo* (1975). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for *The Odd Couple* (1968). His later credits include *Plaza Suite* (1971) and *Gideon's Trumpet* (1980). He died in Burbank, California, in 1985.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sunset Boulevard* (1950), Fi1m 93, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/sunset-boulevard.md)
- *Wake Island* (1942), Fi1m 73, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/wake-island.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

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

- *Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.* (1981), Editor
- *Gideon's Trumpet* (1980), Editor
- *Something Short of Paradise* (1979), Editor
- *The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox* (1976), Editor
- *Mandingo* (1975), Editor
- *Conrack* (1974), Editor
- *Pete 'n' Tillie* (1972), Editor
- *The War Between Men and Women* (1972), Editor
- *Star Spangled Girl* (1971), Editor
- *Plaza Suite* (1971), Editor
- *Flap* (1970), Editor
- *The Molly Maguires* (1970), Editor
- *The Brotherhood* (1968), Editor, Director of Photography
- *The Odd Couple* (1968), Editor
- *Hombre* (1967), Editor
- *Nevada Smith* (1966), Editor
- *Harlow* (1965), Editor
- *Sylvia* (1965), Editor
- *Where Love Has Gone* (1964), Editor
- *The Carpetbaggers* (1964), Editor
- *A New Kind of Love* (1963), Editor
- *Hud* (1963), Editor
- *The Pigeon That Took Rome* (1962), Editor
- *Too Late Blues* (1961), Editor
- *On the Double* (1961), Editor
- *The Facts of Life* (1960), Editor
- *It Started in Naples* (1960), Editor
- *Visit to a Small Planet* (1960), Editor
- *The Miracle* (1959), Editor
- *Houseboat* (1958), Editor
- *Damn Yankees* (1958), Editor
- *The Helen Morgan Story* (1957), Editor
- *Funny Face* (1957), Editor
- *The Mountain* (1956), Editor
- *The Far Horizons* (1955), Editor
- *White Christmas* (1954), Editor
- *Flight to Tangier* (1953), Editor
- *Arrowhead* (1953), Editor
- *The Vanquished* (1953), Editor
- *Hurricane Smith* (1952), Editor
- *Somebody Loves Me* (1952), Editor
- *My Favorite Spy* (1951), Editor
- *The Mating Season* (1951), Editor
- *Sunset Boulevard* (1950), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/sunset-boulevard.md)
- *The Peanut Man* (1947), Editor
- *Know Your Enemy: Japan* (1945), Editor
- *Wake Island* (1942), Editor — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/wake-island.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1969: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Odd Couple*

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

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