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name: "Marjorie Fowler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marjorie-fowler"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "16 July 1920"
died: "8 July 2003"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T16:44:36.600669+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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# Marjorie Fowler

Editor. Born 16 July 1920 in Los Angeles. Died 8 July 2003.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 16 July 1920, Los Angeles
- **Died:** 8 July 2003
- **Also known as:** Marjorie Johnson
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Fowler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1170998, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288761/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18664

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Conquest of the Planet of the Apes*](https://film.one/film/conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes.md) (73)

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## Biography

Marjorie Fowler (also credited as Marjorie Johnson) was an American film and television editor. Born on 16 July 1920 in Los Angeles, she was the daughter of screenwriter Nunnally Johnson and sister of novelist Nora Johnson. She began her career in the 1940s and worked on numerous features and television productions over five decades.

Her film credits include *The Woman in the Window* (1944), *The Three Faces of Eve* (1957), *Separate Tables* (1958), *Elmer Gantry* (1960), *Lover Come Back* (1961), *Doctor Dolittle* (1967) and *Conquest of the Planet of the Apes* (1972). She also edited episodes of *The Waltons*. Fowler received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for *Doctor Dolittle* and won an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for the television film *The Marva Collins Story* (1981).

She was married to film editor and director Gene Fowler Jr. until his death in 1998. In 1964 they became the first woman and man respectively to receive top honours from the American Cinema Editors. Fowler was awarded the organisation’s Lifetime Career Achievement Award in 2000. She died on 8 July 2003 in the Hollywood Hills, California.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Conquest of the Planet of the Apes* (1972), Fi1m 73, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

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

- *Evergreen* (1985), series, Editor
- *Family Secrets* (1984), Editor
- *A Wedding on Waltons Mountain* (1982), Story, Teleplay
- *Washington Mistress* (1982), Editor
- *The Marva Collins Story* (1981), Editor
- *It's My Turn* (1980), Editor
- *The Prince of Central Park* (1977), Editor
- *Bunco* (1977), Editor
- *The Runaways* (1975), Editor
- *The Blue Knight* (1973), Editor
- *The Blue Knight* (1973), series, Editor
- *The Girls of Huntington House* (1973), Editor
- *The Waltons* (1972), series, Editor
- *Conquest of the Planet of the Apes* (1972), Editor — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes.md)
- *The Homecoming: A Christmas Story* (1971), Editor
- *The Strawberry Statement* (1970), Editor
- *Doctor Dolittle* (1967), Editor
- *Dear Brigitte* (1965), Editor
- *What a Way to Go!* (1964), Editor
- *Take Her, She's Mine* (1963), Editor
- *40 Pounds of Trouble* (1962), Editor
- *Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation* (1962), Editor
- *The Outsider* (1961), Editor
- *Lover Come Back* (1961), Editor
- *Elmer Gantry* (1960), Editor
- *The Man Who Understood Women* (1959), Editor
- *Separate Tables* (1958), Editor
- *Fraulein* (1958), Editor
- *The Three Faces of Eve* (1957), Editor
- *Stopover Tokyo* (1957), Editor
- *Oh, Men! Oh, Women!* (1957), Editor
- *Crime of Passion* (1956), Editor
- *The Brass Legend* (1956), Editor
- *Man in the Attic* (1953), Editor
- *Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid* (1948), Editor
- *The Woman in the Window* (1944), Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1968: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Doctor Dolittle*

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

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