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name: "Sherman Kell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sherman-kell"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "18 May 1884"
died: "26 August 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:14:17.985849+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."
---

# Sherman Kell

Editor. Born 18 May 1884 in Stevenson Township. Died 26 August 1951.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 18 May 1884, Stevenson Township
- **Died:** 26 August 1951
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30533299, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445488/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14412

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The General*](https://film.one/film/the-general.md) (91)

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## Biography

Sherman Kell was an American film editor. He worked on several Buster Keaton comedies in the late 1920s, including *The General* (1926), *College* (1927) and *Steamboat Bill, Jr.* (1928).

Kell was born on 18 May 1884 in Stevenson, Marion County, Illinois, and died on 26 August 1951 in Los Angeles, California.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The General* (1926), Fi1m 91, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-general.md)

## Also known for

- *Steamboat Bill, Jr.* (1928), Editor
- *College* (1927), Editor

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