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James B. Clark (filmmaker)

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to cut costs. To further reduce expenses, the episodes would be shot at the network's Television City studios, there would be fewer camera movements, and no exterior shots would be permitted. The six episodes were taped from November and to mid-December, although they would be broadcast out of order
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between December 1960 and March 1961. Clark acted as associate director on all six of these videotaped episodes, assisting the directors with technical issues regarding videotape and helping to keep the production on track. The episodes he worked on were "
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s second season, the show's budget was showing a deficit. The total number of new episodes was projected at 29, more than half of which (16) had already been shot by November 1960. CBS suggested that six episodes be captured on
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series on ABC. He directed 15 episodes of the show from 1966 to 1967. At the very end of his directorial career, Clark directed four episodes of the long-running television series
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James B. Clark retired from the entertainment industry in 1974. Clark died at his home in Woodland Hills, California, of unspecified causes at the age of 92.
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in 1941, which won Academy Awards for both best picture and best director, and for which Clark received a nomination for best editing. In 1942, he edited
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Clark began directing films and television in 1955 at the age of 47. His first directorial effort was a 1955 episode of the television series
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for Best Dramatic Anthology Series that year. Clark worked steadily in television throughout the 1960s. He directed four episodes of the
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Throughout the 1940s and the 1950s, he was one of Hollywood's most reliable film editors, working on such high-profile projects as
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He began his career in his family's restaurant business. But in 1937 he moved to California and found work as a film editor at
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from 1967 to 1968. His longest-running tenure as director on network television, however, occurred on the popular
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Clark edited almost 60 films in his career as a film editor, which lasted from 1937 to 1960. His first film was
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proved highly popular and led to a long-running television series (with which Clark was not associated).
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Clark also had a brief career as an "associate director" on television. It began in 1960 on the
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was widely praised for its performances and lush, painterly cinematography, while
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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing for a Television Film
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Blue Ribbon for Best Picture of the Month for the Whole Family
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Andres, Holly. "James B. Clark, 92, Emmy-Nominated Editor."
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In the 1960s, Clark frequently collaborated with producer
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In 1966, Clark was associate director alongside director
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in 1958; two films shot back to back in Mexico, also for
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from 1965 to 1966, six episodes of the ABC family drama
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in 1939. He moved quickly up the ranks at Fox, editing
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Index

James B. Clark (director)
Stillwater
Minnesota
U.S.
Woodland Hills
California
Film director
film editor
television director
film director
film editor
television director
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
How Green Was My Valley
A Dog of Flanders
The Sad Horse
Misty
Flipper
Island of the Blue Dolphins
My Side of the Mountain
My Friend Flicka
Batman
Lassie
Stillwater, Minnesota
Cleveland
Ohio
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
20th Century Fox
Wings of the Morning

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