---
name: "Oswald Hafenrichter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/oswald-hafenrichter"
fi1m_id: "oswald-hafenrichter"
imdb_id: "nm0353091"
tmdb_id: 15384
wikidata_id: "Q89877"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "10 April 1899"
died: "18 May 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T03:53:53.079991+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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# Oswald Hafenrichter

## Identity

Oswald Hafenrichter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oswald-hafenrichter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** oswald-hafenrichter
- **IMDb ID:** nm0353091
- **TMDB ID:** 15384
- **Wikidata ID:** Q89877
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Hafenrichter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89877, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0353091/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15384

Editor. Born 10 April 1899 in Oplotnica, Slovenia. Died 18 May 1973.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 10 April 1899, Oplotnica, Slovenia
- **Died:** 18 May 1973
- **Active:** 1949–1961
- **Also known as:** Osvaldo Hafenrichter
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 92 (1), 1960s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Hafenrichter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89877, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0353091/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15384

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Third Man*](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md) (92)

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## Biography

Oswald Eduard Hafenrichter (10 April 1899 – 18 May 1973) was an Austrian-British film editor. He began his career in Germany, studying medicine before becoming an editor at UFA in Berlin in 1926. He later worked in Italy with director Carmine Gallone before fleeing to the United Kingdom as a refugee during the Second World War, where he edited propaganda films for the Ministry of Information.

After the war, Hafenrichter joined Alexander Korda's London Films and worked frequently with Carol Reed. His credits include *An Ideal Husband* (1947), *The Fallen Idol* (1948) and *The Third Man* (1949), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing. He also edited more than twenty Brazilian films in the 1950s, primarily for the Vera Cruz studio, before returning to Britain.

His later work included *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), *Dr. Who and the Daleks* (1965) and several Hammer horror films such as *The Skull* (1965), *Cry of the Banshee* (1970), *Trog* (1970), *The Creeping Flesh* (1973) and *The Vault of Horror* (1973).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), Fi1m 74, Associate Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md)
- *The Third Man* (1949), Fi1m 92, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md)

## Complete filmography (50)

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

- *The Vault of Horror* (1973), Editor
- *The Creeping Flesh* (1973), Editor
- *Trog* (1970), Editor
- *Cry of the Banshee* (1970), Editor
- *The File of the Golden Goose* (1969), Editor
- *Danger Route* (1967), Editor
- *The Deadly Bees* (1966), Editor
- *The Trygon Factor* (1966), Editor
- *The Psychopath* (1966), Editor
- *The Skull* (1965), Editor
- *Dr. Who and the Daleks* (1965), Editor
- *Traitor's Gate* (1964), Editor
- *Sparrows Can't Sing* (1963), Editor
- *The Happy Thieves* (1961), Editor
- *Enter Inspector Duval* (1961), Editor
- *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), Associate Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-guns-of-navarone.md)
- *The Hands of Orlac* (1960), Editor
- *Jet Storm* (1959), Editor
- *Law and Disorder* (1958), Editor
- *O Capanga* (1957), Screenplay
- *The Smallest Show on Earth* (1957), Editor
- *O Sobrado* (1956), Editor
- *A Estrada* (1955), Editor
- *Floradas na Serra* (1954), Supervising Editor
- *É Proibido Beijar* (1954), Editor
- *Road to Crime* (1954), Editor
- *A Família Lero-Lero* (1953), Supervising Editor
- *The Landowner's Daughter* (1953), Supervising Editor
- *Uma Pulga na Balança* (1953), Editor
- *The Bandit* (1953), Editor
- *Veneno* (1952), Editor
- *Sai da Frente* (1952), Editor
- *Appassionata* (1952), Editorial Manager
- *Tico-Tico no Fubá* (1952), Editor
- *Angela* (1951), Supervising Editor
- *The Happiest Days of Your Life* (1950), Editor
- *The Third Man* (1949), Editor — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md)
- *The Fallen Idol* (1948), Editor
- *An Ideal Husband* (1947), Editor
- *Amami, Alfredo!* (1940), Editor
- *Manon Lescaut* (1940), Editor
- *Beyond Love* (1940), Editor
- *The Dream of Butterfly* (1939), Editor
- *The Life of Giuseppe Verdi* (1938), Editor
- *Mother Song* (1937), Editor
- *Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal* (1937), Editor
- *Hot Blood* (1936), Editor
- *Queen of Love* (1935), Editor
- *Der grüne Domino* (1935), Editor
- *Mädchen in Uniform* (1931), Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1951: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Third Man*

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

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