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name: "Otho Lovering"
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roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 December 1892"
died: "25 October 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:49:13.658147+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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# Otho Lovering

Editor. Born 1 December 1892 in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Died 25 October 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 December 1892, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- **Died:** 25 October 1968
- **Also known as:** Otho S. Lovering, Otto S. Lovering, Otto Lovering, Otto Levering, Otho Scott Lovering, Otto Scott Lovering

## Biography

Otho Lovering was an American film editor. Born in Philadelphia in 1892, he began his career at Vitagraph Studios as a film printing foreman and became an editor in the 1920s. He later worked for Paramount Pictures and directed several low-budget westerns in the mid-1930s.

Lovering edited John Ford's *Stagecoach* (1939) with Dorothy Spencer; the pair were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. He collaborated again with Ford from the early 1960s, editing *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* (1962), *Cheyenne Autumn* (1964), *Shenandoah* (1965) and *7 Women* (1966). He had around eighty editing credits on feature films and television programmes.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stagecoach* (1939), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/stagecoach.md)

## Also known for

- *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* (1962), Editor
- *Foreign Correspondent* (1940), Supervising Editor
- *McLintock!* (1963), Editor
- *The Green Berets* (1968), Editor
- *Shenandoah* (1965), Editor
- *A Farewell to Arms* (1932), Editor
- *Donovan's Reef* (1963), Editor
- *Cheyenne Autumn* (1964), Editor

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