---
name: "Rudi Fehr"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rudi-fehr"
fi1m_id: "rudi-fehr"
imdb_id: "nm0270458"
tmdb_id: 7126
wikidata_id: "Q111743"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "6 July 1911"
died: "16 April 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:06:04.839172+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."
---

# Rudi Fehr

## Identity

Rudi Fehr

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rudi-fehr
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rudi-fehr
- **IMDb ID:** nm0270458
- **TMDB ID:** 7126
- **Wikidata ID:** Q111743
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Fehr, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111743, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7126

Producer. Born 6 July 1911 in Berlin, Germany. Died 16 April 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 6 July 1911, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 16 April 1999
- **Active:** 1943–1985
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 producing, 3 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 73 (1), 1950s 80 (1), 1970s 92 (1), 1980s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Fehr, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111743, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7126

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Dial M for Murder*](https://film.one/film/dial-m-for-murder.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Rudi Fehr was a German-born American film editor and studio executive. Born in Berlin in 1911, he began working in the film industry there before fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He moved via Vienna and London to Hollywood in 1936, where he joined Warner Bros. as an assistant editor.

Fehr edited more than thirty feature films for Warner Bros. over four decades, including *Key Largo* (1948), *I Confess* (1953), *House of Wax* (1953) and *Dial M for Murder* (1954). He served as head of post-production at the studio from 1955 to 1976.

After retiring from Warner Bros., Fehr worked with Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope and co-edited *One from the Heart* (1982) and *Prizzi's Honor* (1985). He received an Academy Award nomination for the latter, shared with his daughter Kaja Fehr. He died in Hollywood in 1999.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Apocalypse Now* (1979), Fi1m 92, Post Production Coordinator — [page](https://film.one/film/apocalypse-now.md)

### Crew (3)

- *Prizzi's Honor* (1985), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/prizzis-honor.md)
- *Dial M for Murder* (1954), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/dial-m-for-murder.md)
- *Watch on the Rhine* (1943), Fi1m 73, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/watch-on-the-rhine.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

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

- *Prizzi's Honor* (1985), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/prizzis-honor.md)
- *One from the Heart* (1982), Editor
- *Apocalypse Now* (1979), Post Production Coordinator — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/apocalypse-now.md)
- *Land of the Pharaohs* (1955), Supervising Editor
- *Dial M for Murder* (1954), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/dial-m-for-murder.md)
- *Riding Shotgun* (1954), Editor
- *The Desert Song* (1953), Producer
- *House of Wax* (1953), Editor
- *I Confess* (1953), Editor
- *Goodbye, My Fancy* (1951), Editor
- *Rocky Mountain* (1950), Editor
- *The Damned Don't Cry* (1950), Editor
- *The Inspector General* (1949), Editor
- *Beyond the Forest* (1949), Editor
- *Key Largo* (1948), Editor
- *Romance on the High Seas* (1948), Editor
- *The Voice of the Turtle* (1947), Editor
- *Possessed* (1947), Editor
- *Humoresque* (1947), Editor
- *Nobody Lives Forever* (1946), Editor
- *A Stolen Life* (1946), Editor
- *Devotion* (1946), Editor
- *The Conspirators* (1944), Editor
- *Between Two Worlds* (1944), Editor
- *In Our Time* (1944), Editor
- *Watch on the Rhine* (1943), Editor — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/watch-on-the-rhine.md)
- *Desperate Journey* (1942), Editor
- *All Through the Night* (1942), Editor
- *Navy Blues* (1941), Editor
- *Million Dollar Baby* (1941), Editor
- *The Great Mr. Nobody* (1941), Editor
- *Honeymoon for Three* (1941), Editor
- *My Love Came Back* (1940), Editor
- *Alice in Movieland* (1940), Editor
- *Confession* (1937), Assistant Editor
- *The Invader* (1936), Editor
- *Le Tunnel* (1933), Editor
- *Invisible Opponent* (1933), Co-Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1986: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Prizzi's Honor*

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

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