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name: "Tom Held"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-held"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "31 August 1889"
died: "13 March 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:55:20.143513+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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# Tom Held

Editor. Born 31 August 1889 in Vienna - Austria. Died 13 March 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 31 August 1889, Vienna - Austria
- **Died:** 13 March 1962
- **Active:** 1936–1938
- **Frequently works with:** [Clark Gable](https://film.one/person/clark-gable.md), [Spencer Tracy](https://film.one/person/spencer-tracy.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Held, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15455911, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374934/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1067439

## Biography

Tom Held (31 August 1889 – 13 March 1962) was an Austrian-born American film editor. Born in Vienna, he worked in Hollywood from the silent era into the late 1930s, initially as an assistant director in the 1920s before moving into editing, primarily at MGM.

His credits include *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1932), *Tarzan and His Mate* (1934), *San Francisco* (1936), *Conquest* (1937) and *Test Pilot* (1938). He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing at the 11th Academy Awards, for *The Great Waltz* (1938) and *Test Pilot*.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Test Pilot* (1938), Fi1m 73, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/test-pilot.md)
- *San Francisco* (1936), Fi1m 71, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/san-francisco.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *The Great Waltz* (1938), Editor
- *Test Pilot* (1938), Editor — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/test-pilot.md)
- *Conquest* (1937), Editor
- *The Devil Is a Sissy* (1936), Editor
- *San Francisco* (1936), Editor — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/san-francisco.md)
- *Three Live Ghosts* (1936), Editor
- *I Live My Life* (1935), Editor
- *Escapade* (1935), Editor
- *After Office Hours* (1935), Editor
- *Forsaking All Others* (1934), Editor
- *The Girl from Missouri* (1934), Editor
- *Tarzan and His Mate* (1934), Editor
- *The Barbarian* (1933), Editor
- *Rasputin and the Empress* (1932), Editor
- *Skyscraper Souls* (1932), Editor
- *But the Flesh Is Weak* (1932), Editor
- *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1932), Editor
- *The Sin of Madelon Claudet* (1931), Editor
- *Sevilla de mis Amores* (1930), Editor
- *Men of the North* (1930), Editor
- *Wild Oats Lane* (1926), Assistant Director
- *The Sporting Venus* (1925), Assistant Director
- *The Strangers' Banquet* (1922), Assistant Director
- *Penrod* (1922), Assistant Director
- *The River's End* (1920), Assistant Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1939: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Great Waltz*

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

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