Harold D. Schuster

Harold D. Schuster

Editor. Born 1 August 1902 in Cherokee, Iowa, USA. Died 19 July 1986.

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Born
1 August 1902, Cherokee, Iowa, USA
Died
19 July 1986

Biography

Harold D. Schuster (also credited as Harold Schuster and Charles Fuhr) was an American film editor and director. Born in Cherokee, Iowa, he began in films as an actor and assistant cameraman before becoming an editor. He edited F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927).

Schuster made his directorial debut with Wings of the Morning (1937), the first three-strip Technicolor feature shot in Europe. Among his feature films are My Friend Flicka (1943), So Dear to My Heart (1948), Loophole (1954) and Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957). He later directed episodes of television series including Death Valley Days, Lassie and The Twilight Zone, retiring in the 1960s.

Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, Harold D. Schuster is known for So Dear to My Heart (1948).