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name: "William Shea"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-shea"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "16 April 1893"
died: "29 September 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T21:58:03.555318+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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# William Shea

Editor. Born 16 April 1893 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Died 29 September 1961.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 16 April 1893, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- **Died:** 29 September 1961
- **Also known as:** Billy Shea, Billy Shay
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568947, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790357/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29598

## Biography

William Shea was a Canadian film editor and director. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he worked in Hollywood from the silent era onwards and was based at Paramount Pictures between 1928 and 1947.

Shea edited more than seventy American films. His credits include *The Last Command* (1928), *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* (1931), *One Hour with You* (1932), *Desire* (1936), *Angel* (1937), *Bluebeard's 8th Wife* (1938) and *That Uncertain Feeling* (1941). He also directed three short musical films in the mid-1940s.

His later work included television editing, with a credit on the pilot episode of the series *Mister Ed*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *One Hour with You* (1932), Fi1m 77, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/one-hour-with-you.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

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

- *She Demons* (1958), Editor
- *So You Want to Be a Plumber* (1951), Editor
- *Saigon* (1947), Editor
- *Wild Harvest* (1947), Editor
- *The Trouble with Women* (1947), Editor
- *O.S.S.* (1946), Editor
- *Bring on the Girls* (1945), Editor
- *Salty O'Rourke* (1945), Editor
- *Standing Room Only* (1944), Editor
- *My Favorite Blonde* (1942), Editor
- *The Lady Has Plans* (1942), Editor
- *That Uncertain Feeling* (1941), Editor
- *Life with Henry* (1941), Editor
- *Victory* (1940), Editor
- *Those Were the Days!* (1940), Editor
- *What a Life* (1939), Editor
- *St. Louis Blues* (1939), Editor
- *Give Me a Sailor* (1938), Editor
- *Bluebeard's 8th Wife* (1938), Editor
- *Angel* (1937), Editor
- *Bulldog Drummond Escapes* (1937), Editor
- *Rose Bowl* (1936), Editor
- *Hollywood Boulevard* (1936), Editor
- *Girl of the Ozarks* (1936), Director
- *Desire* (1936), Editor
- *Hands Across the Table* (1935), Editor
- *Two for Tonight* (1935), Editor
- *Love in Bloom* (1935), Editor
- *Little Miss Marker* (1934), Editor
- *Murder at the Vanities* (1934), Editor
- *The Way to Love* (1933), Editor
- *Love Me Tonight* (1932), Editor, Negative Cutter
- *One Hour with You* (1932), Editor — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/one-hour-with-you.md)
- *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* (1931), Editor
- *City Streets* (1931), Editor
- *Fighting Caravans* (1931), Editor
- *The Virginian* (1929), Editor
- *The Canary Murder Case* (1929), Editor
- *Just Married* (1928), Editor
- *Partners in Crime* (1928), Editor
- *Under the Tonto Rim* (1928), Editor
- *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* (1928), Editor
- *The Last Command* (1928), Editor
- *Bound in Morocco* (1918), Editor
- *A Modern Musketeer* (1917), Editor
- *Wild and Woolly* (1917), Editor
- *The Children of the Feud* (1916), Editor
- *The Young Man Who 'Figgered'* (1915), as Papa Tubbs

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