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name: "John F. Link Sr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-f-link-sr"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "22 March 1901"
died: "8 April 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:00:57.395255+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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# John F. Link Sr.

Editor. Born 22 March 1901 in Alabama. Died 8 April 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 22 March 1901, Alabama
- **Died:** 8 April 1968
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Link_Sr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15732931, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44591

## Biography

John F. Link Sr. (22 March 1901 – 8 April 1968) was an American film editor. Born in Alabama, he began his career editing short films in the early 1930s before moving to feature films.

Link edited over thirty films across three decades. His best-known credit is the 1943 adaptation of *For Whom the Bell Tolls*, for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing with Sherman Todd. Other credits include *The Great Flamarion* (1945) and *Gold Fever* (1952).

His son, John F. Link Jr., also worked as a film editor.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1943), Fi1m 58, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/for-whom-the-bell-tolls.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *The Immoral Mr. Teas* (1959), Editor
- *Space Master X-7* (1958), Editor
- *The Best Doggoned Dog in the World* (1957), Editor
- *Call of the Forest* (1949), Director
- *Devil's Cargo* (1948), Director
- *Queen of the Amazons* (1947), Editor
- *The Glass Alibi* (1946), Editor
- *Strange Impersonation* (1946), Editor
- *Jealousy* (1945), Editor
- *Identity Unknown* (1945), Editor
- *The Great Flamarion* (1945), Editor
- *I'm from Arkansas* (1944), Editor
- *Knickerbocker Holiday* (1944), Supervising Editor
- *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1943), Editor — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/for-whom-the-bell-tolls.md)
- *Born to the West* (1937), Editor
- *Carnival Boat* (1932), Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1944: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *For Whom the Bell Tolls*

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

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