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name: "George Nichols Jr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/george-nichols-jr"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "5 May 1897"
died: "13 November 1939"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T22:07:23.597480+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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# George Nichols Jr.

Editor. Born 5 May 1897 in San Francisco. Died 13 November 1939.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 5 May 1897, San Francisco
- **Died:** 13 November 1939
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nicholls_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101789, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629519/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/585135

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*A Farewell to Arms*](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md) (80)

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## Biography

George Nicholls Jr. (also credited as George Nichols Jr.) was an American film editor and director. Born in San Francisco in 1897, he began working in the industry during the silent era as a second assistant director on *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916).

In the early 1930s he edited a number of features, including an uncredited credit on *A Farewell to Arms* (1932). He later directed films such as *Anne of Green Gables* (1934), *Chatterbox* (1936), *Man of Conquest* (1939), *Army Girl* (1938), *High School* (1940) and *The Marines Fly High* (1940). Nicholls died in Los Angeles in 1939.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Farewell to Arms* (1932), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *The Marines Fly High* (1940), Director
- *High School* (1940), Director
- *Man of Conquest* (1939), Director
- *Army Girl* (1938), Director
- *Portia on Trial* (1937), Director
- *The Soldier and the Lady* (1937), Director
- *The Big Game* (1936), Director
- *M'Liss* (1936), Director
- *The Witness Chair* (1936), Director
- *Chatterbox* (1936), Director
- *The Return Of Peter Grimm* (1935), Director
- *Chasing Yesterday* (1935), Director
- *Anne of Green Gables* (1934), Director
- *Finishing School* (1934), Director
- *Ann Vickers* (1933), Editor
- *Double Harness* (1933), Editor
- *The Silver Cord* (1933), Editor
- *Sweepings* (1933), Editor
- *A Farewell to Arms* (1932), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md)
- *Scandal Sheet* (1931), Editor
- *Derelict* (1930), Editor
- *For the Defense* (1930), Editor
- *The Devil's Holiday* (1930), Editor
- *Seven Days Leave* (1930), Editor
- *The Mighty* (1929), Editor
- *The Dance of Life* (1929), Editor
- *The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu* (1929), Editor
- *Forgotten Faces* (1928), Editor
- *The Street of Sin* (1928), Editor
- *The Port of Missing Girls* (1928), Editor
- *Wife Savers* (1928), Editor
- *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), Second Assistant Director
- *The Making of Crooks* (1915), as Bob
- *Pa's Medicine* (1912), as Willie, the Little Boy

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