---
name: "Frederic Knudtson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frederic-knudtson"
fi1m_id: "frederic-knudtson"
imdb_id: "nm0461772"
tmdb_id: 12143
wikidata_id: "Q1452725"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "9 April 1906"
died: "15 February 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T05:11:07.693692+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."
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# Frederic Knudtson

## Identity

Frederic Knudtson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frederic-knudtson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frederic-knudtson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0461772
- **TMDB ID:** 12143
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1452725
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Knudtson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452725, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461772/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12143

Editor. Born 9 April 1906 in Apple Creek, North Dakota, USA. Died 15 February 1964.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 9 April 1906, Apple Creek, North Dakota, USA
- **Died:** 15 February 1964
- **Active:** 1953–1961
- **Also known as:** Fred Knudtson, Fred Kundtson
- **Frequently works with:** [Stanley Kramer](https://film.one/person/stanley-kramer.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 6 Oscar nominations
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 76 (2), 1960s 82 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Adventure 1, History 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $10m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Knudtson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452725, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461772/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12143

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Judgment at Nuremberg*](https://film.one/film/judgment-at-nuremberg.md) (82)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Defiant Ones*](https://film.one/film/the-defiant-ones.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor whose career spanned more than three decades. Born in Apple Creek, North Dakota, he began as an assistant editor on *What Price Hollywood?* (1932) and went on to edit dozens of films, including many B-movies for RKO in the 1930s and 1940s.

He received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for *The Window* (1949). From the mid-1950s he worked regularly with director Stanley Kramer, editing *The Defiant Ones* (1958), *On the Beach* (1959), *Inherit the Wind* (1960), *Judgment at Nuremberg* (1961) and *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World* (1963). He earned five further Oscar nominations for these films and died in Los Angeles in 1964.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Judgment at Nuremberg* (1961), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/judgment-at-nuremberg.md)
- *The Defiant Ones* (1958), Fi1m 74, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-defiant-ones.md)
- *Angel Face* (1953), Fi1m 78, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/angel-face.md)

## Complete filmography (65)

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

- *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World* (1963), Editor
- *Pressure Point* (1962), Editor
- *Judgment at Nuremberg* (1961), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/judgment-at-nuremberg.md)
- *Posse from Hell* (1961), Editor
- *The Great Impostor* (1960), Editor
- *Inherit the Wind* (1960), Editor
- *On the Beach* (1959), Editor
- *Cry Tough* (1959), Editor
- *The Defiant Ones* (1958), Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-defiant-ones.md)
- *The Man Who Died Twice* (1958), Editor
- *The Crooked Circle* (1957), Editor
- *The Pride and the Passion* (1957), Editor
- *Run for the Sun* (1956), Editor
- *Not as a Stranger* (1955), Editor
- *Son of Sinbad* (1955), Editor
- *Underwater!* (1955), Editor
- *Angel Face* (1953), Editor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/angel-face.md)
- *The Las Vegas Story* (1952), Editor
- *His Kind of Woman* (1951), Editor
- *Walk Softly, Stranger* (1950), Editor
- *Born to Be Bad* (1950), Editor
- *A Dangerous Profession* (1949), Editor
- *Bride for Sale* (1949), Editor
- *Strange Bargain* (1949), Editor
- *Easy Living* (1949), Editor
- *The Window* (1949), Editor
- *Station West* (1948), Editor
- *The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer* (1947), Editor
- *This Land Is Mine* (1943), Editor
- *Thundering Hoofs* (1942), Editor
- *Come on Danger* (1942), Editor
- *The Tuttles of Tahiti* (1942), Editor
- *Land of the Open Range* (1942), Editor
- *Dude Cowboy* (1941), Editor
- *The Bandit Trail* (1941), Editor
- *Six-Gun Gold* (1941), Editor
- *Cyclone on Horseback* (1941), Editor
- *Along the Rio Grande* (1941), Editor
- *The Fargo Kid* (1940), Editor
- *Triple Justice* (1940), Editor
- *Stage to Chino* (1940), Editor
- *Prairie Law* (1940), Editor
- *Bullet Code* (1940), Editor
- *The Marines Fly High* (1940), Editor
- *Legion of the Lawless* (1940), Editor
- *The Marshal Of Mesa City* (1939), Editor
- *The Wrong Room* (1939), Editor
- *The Fighting Gringo* (1939), Editor
- *Timber Stampede* (1939), Editor
- *Racketeers of the Range* (1939), Editor
- *The Rookie Cop* (1939), Editor
- *Trouble in Sundown* (1939), Editor
- *Arizona Legion* (1939), Editor
- *Lawless Valley* (1938), Editor
- *Painted Desert* (1938), Editor
- *Border G-Man* (1938), Editor
- *She's Got Everything* (1937), Editor
- *Saturday's Heroes* (1937), Editor
- *The Soldier and the Lady* (1937), Editor
- *The Big Game* (1936), Editor
- *The Silver Streak* (1934), Editor
- *Headline Shooter* (1933), Editor
- *Cross Fire* (1933), Editor
- *Lucky Devils* (1933), Editor
- *What Price Hollywood?* (1932), Assistant Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 6 nominated

- 1964: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World*
- 1962: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Judgment at Nuremberg*
- 1961: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Inherit the Wind*
- 1960: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *On the Beach*
- 1959: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Defiant Ones*
- 1950: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Window*

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

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