---
name: "William S. Gray"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-s-gray"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "26 August 1896"
died: "16 December 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:05:15.002002+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."
---

# William S. Gray

Editor. Born 26 August 1896 in Manhattan. Died 16 December 1946.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 26 August 1896, Manhattan
- **Died:** 16 December 1946
- **Active:** 1929–1936
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 62 (1), 1930s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Gray_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15844918, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337013/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1167084

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Hollywood Revue of 1929*](https://film.one/film/the-hollywood-revue-of-1929.md) (62)

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## Biography

William S. Gray was an American film editor. He worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and edited 35 films between 1929 and 1938.

His credits include *The Hollywood Revue of 1929* and *The Great Ziegfeld* (1936). Gray received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for the latter.

Born William Sylvester Gray on 26 August 1896 in Manhattan, New York, he died on 16 December 1946 in Los Angeles, California.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Great Ziegfeld* (1936), Fi1m 64, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-ziegfeld.md)
- *The Hollywood Revue of 1929* (1929), Fi1m 62, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hollywood-revue-of-1929.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *Everybody Sing* (1938), Editor
- *My Dear Miss Aldrich* (1937), Editor
- *Married Before Breakfast* (1937), Editor
- *Sinner Take All* (1936), Editor
- *Piccadilly Jim* (1936), Editor
- *The Great Ziegfeld* (1936), Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-ziegfeld.md)
- *It's in the Air* (1935), Editor
- *Baby Face Harrington* (1935), Editor
- *Biography of a Bachelor Girl* (1935), Editor
- *Straight Is the Way* (1934), Editor
- *Murder in the Private Car* (1934), Editor
- *The Show-Off* (1934), Editor
- *The Chief* (1933), Editor
- *Broadway to Hollywood* (1933), Editor
- *Midnight Mary* (1933), Editor
- *Made on Broadway* (1933), Editor
- *Men Must Fight* (1933), Editor
- *Flesh* (1932), Editor
- *Unashamed* (1932), Editor
- *New Morals for Old* (1932), Editor
- *The Passionate Plumber* (1932), Editor
- *Flying High* (1931), Editor
- *Sporting Blood* (1931), Editor
- *Stepping Out* (1931), Editor
- *Gentleman's Fate* (1931), Editor
- *Politics* (1931), Editor
- *Way Out West* (1930), Editor
- *In Gay Madrid* (1930), Editor
- *The Hollywood Revue of 1929* (1929), Editor — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hollywood-revue-of-1929.md)
- *Untamed* (1929), Editor
- *Madame X* (1929), Editor
- *The Voice of the City* (1929), Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1937: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Great Ziegfeld*

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

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