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name: "H.H. Caldwell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/h-h-caldwell"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "5 February 1873"
died: "27 April 1939"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-19T21:24:33.613849+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."
---

# H.H. Caldwell

Editor. Born 5 February 1873 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Died 27 April 1939.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 5 February 1873, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 27 April 1939
- **Also known as:** Harry Handly Caldwell
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Caldwell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5669347, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0129721/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1010724

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*7th Heaven*](https://film.one/film/7th-heaven.md) (86)

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## Biography

H.H. Caldwell, also credited as Harry Handly Caldwell, was an American film editor and writer. A former United States Navy officer, he entered the motion picture industry after retiring from naval service and later collaborated extensively with his wife, Katherine Hilliker, on silent films.

Caldwell worked as a production editor, title writer and adapter for Fox Film Corporation and other studios. His credits include *7th Heaven* (1927), on which he served as editor and writer, *Lucky Star* (1929) and *City Girl* (1930). He contributed to numerous other productions of the late 1920s, often handling intertitles and narrative supervision.

Caldwell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1873 and died in New York City in 1939.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *7th Heaven* (1927), Fi1m 86, Writer, Adaptation, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/7th-heaven.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Trying to drink the most orange soda in under a minute and 30 seconds* (2021), as Extra
- *City Girl* (1930), Editor
- *Christina* (1929), Editor
- *Lucky Star* (1929), Editor, Writer
- *The Exalted Flapper* (1929), Editor
- *The Far Call* (1929), Writer, Editor
- *The Rescue* (1929), Editor
- *The Awakening* (1928), Writer
- *The Gateway of the Moon* (1928), Writer
- *Mother Machree* (1927), Editor, Dialogue
- *East Side, West Side* (1927), Writer
- *7th Heaven* (1927), Editor, Adaptation, Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/7th-heaven.md)
- *The Loves of Carmen* (1927), Editor
- *The Country Beyond* (1926), Writer
- *Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ* (1925), Title Graphics
- *The Prairie Wife* (1925), Editor, Writer
- *The Alaskan* (1924), Writer
- *Welcome Stranger* (1924), Writer
- *Lost and Found on a South Sea Island* (1923), Editor
- *Lonely Heart* (1921), Title Illustration, Editor

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