---
name: "Harry Keller"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-keller"
fi1m_id: "harry-keller"
imdb_id: "nm0445650"
tmdb_id: 67349
wikidata_id: "Q654897"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "22 February 1913"
died: "19 January 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T17:11:05.809889+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."
---

# Harry Keller

## Identity

Harry Keller

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-keller
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-keller
- **IMDb ID:** nm0445650
- **TMDB ID:** 67349
- **Wikidata ID:** Q654897
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Keller, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q654897, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445650/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67349

Editor. Born 22 February 1913 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 19 January 1987.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 22 February 1913, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 19 January 1987
- **Active:** 1958–1981
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 88 (1), 1980s 65 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Crime 2, Action 1, Drama 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $189m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Keller, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q654897, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445650/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67349

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Stripes*](https://film.one/film/stripes.md) (70), [*Stir Crazy*](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md) (60)

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## Biography

Harry Keller (1913–1987) was an American film editor, director and producer. He entered the industry as an editor in 1936 and began directing in the late 1940s, working extensively at Republic Pictures on Westerns before moving to Universal Pictures.

Keller directed features including *The Blonde Bandit* (1949), *The Unguarded Moment* (1956) and *Quantez* (1957). In 1958 he directed additional scenes and reshoots for Orson Welles’s *Touch of Evil*. He later produced several films and continued editing into the 1980s, including *Stir Crazy* (1980) and *Stripes* (1981). He received one Boxoffice Blue Ribbon Award for *The Brass Bottle* (1964).

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Stripes* (1981), Fi1m 70, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/stripes.md)
- *Stir Crazy* (1980), Fi1m 60, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md)
- *Touch of Evil* (1958), Fi1m 88, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/touch-of-evil.md)

## Complete filmography (91)

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

- *Transylvania 6-5000* (1985), Editor
- *Fast Forward* (1985), Editor
- *The Man Who Wasn't There* (1983), Editor
- *Hanky Panky* (1982), Editor
- *Stripes* (1981), Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/stripes.md)
- *Stir Crazy* (1980), Editor — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/stir-crazy.md)
- *Nero Wolfe* (1979), Editor
- *Act of Violence* (1979), Editor, Associate Producer
- *Like Normal People* (1979), Editor
- *The Millionaire* (1978), Editor
- *The Ghost of Flight 401* (1978), Editor
- *Class of '44* (1973), Executive Producer
- *Skin Game* (1971), Producer
- *In Enemy Country* (1968), Director, Producer
- *Texas Across the River* (1966), Producer
- *Mirage* (1965), Producer
- *That Funny Feeling* (1965), Producer
- *Kitten with a Whip* (1964), Producer
- *Send Me No Flowers* (1964), Producer
- *The Brass Bottle* (1964), Director
- *Tammy and the Doctor* (1963), Director
- *Stampede at Bitter Creek* (1962), Director
- *Six Black Horses* (1962), Director
- *Tammy Tell Me True* (1961), Director
- *Seven Ways from Sundown* (1960), Director
- *National Velvet* (1960), series, Director
- *Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge* (1960), Director
- *The Swamp Fox* (1959), series, Director
- *I Captured the King of the Leprechauns* (1959), Director
- *Gundown at Sandoval* (1959), Director
- *Texas John Slaughter* (1958), series, Director
- *Cannonball* (1958), series, Director
- *Step Down to Terror* (1958), Director
- *Voice in the Mirror* (1958), Director
- *Touch of Evil* (1958), Assistant Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/touch-of-evil.md)
- *Day of the Badman* (1958), Director
- *The Female Animal* (1958), Director
- *Quantez* (1957), Director
- *Man Afraid* (1957), Director
- *The Unguarded Moment* (1956), Director
- *Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre* (1956), series, Director
- *Phantom Stallion* (1954), Director
- *Red River Shore* (1953), Director
- *Letter to Loretta* (1953), series, Director
- *El Paso Stampede* (1953), Director
- *Bandits of the West* (1953), Director
- *Savage Frontier* (1953), Director
- *Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe* (1953), Director
- *Marshal of Cedar Rock* (1953), Director
- *Thundering Caravans* (1952), Director
- *Black Hills Ambush* (1952), Director, Producer
- *Leadville Gunslinger* (1952), Director
- *Rose of Cimarron* (1952), Director
- *Captive of Billy the Kid* (1952), Producer
- *Desert of Lost Men* (1951), Director
- *Fort Dodge Stampede* (1951), Director
- *Belle Le Grand* (1951), Editor
- *Lonely Heart Bandits* (1950), Editor
- *The Showdown* (1950), Editor
- *The Arizona Cowboy* (1950), Editor
- *Borderline* (1950), Editor
- *Tarnished* (1950), Director
- *The Blonde Bandit* (1949), Director
- *The Red Menace* (1949), Editor
- *Too Late for Tears* (1949), Editor
- *Streets of San Francisco* (1949), Editor
- *The Red Pony* (1949), Editor
- *Homicide for Three* (1948), Editor
- *Moonrise* (1948), Editor
- *Madonna of the Desert* (1948), Editor
- *Robin Hood Of Texas* (1947), Editor
- *Saddle Pals* (1947), Editor
- *Twilight on the Rio Grande* (1947), Editor
- *Angel and the Badman* (1947), Editor
- *Specter of the Rose* (1946), Editor
- *Passkey to Danger* (1946), Editor
- *Sun Valley Cyclone* (1946), Editor
- *The Catman of Paris* (1946), Editor
- *A Guy Could Change* (1946), Editor
- *Song of Mexico* (1945), Editor
- *Steppin' in Society* (1945), Editor
- *Utah* (1945), Editor
- *Grissly's Millions* (1945), Editor
- *Sheriff of Sundown* (1944), Editor
- *Code of the Prairie* (1944), Editor
- *Call of the Rockies* (1944), Editor
- *California Joe* (1943), Editor
- *Death Valley Manhunt* (1943), Editor
- *King of the Cowboys* (1943), Editor
- *The Witness Vanishes* (1939), Editor
- *Mystery of the White Room* (1939), Editor

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