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Peter Zinner
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Born
July 24
,
1919
·
Vienna, Austria
Died
November 13
,
2007
·
Santa Monica, California, USA
(complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma)
Mini Bio
Peter Zinner was born on July 24, 1919 in Vienna, Austria. He was an editor and producer, known for
The Deer Hunter (1978)
,
The Godfather (1972)
and
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
. He was married to Christa Zinner. He died on November 13, 2007 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Family
Spouse
Christa Zinner
(? - November 13, 2007) (his death)
Trademarks
Frequently edited Richard Brooks, Frank Pierson and Francis Ford Coppola movies.
Trivia
He worked as a taxi driver and piano player in theaters, before landing a job as an apprentice film editor at 20th Century Fox in the early 1940s.
His family was Jewish and fled the Nazis in Austria, moving to the Philippines. He moved to Los Angeles in 1940.
Oscar winning film editor who did sound affects editing at Universal from 1947 to 1949 and music editing at MGM from 1949 to 1960.
His family fled Austria when the Nazis took power. They settled in Los Angeles in 1940.
He contributed with the editing of three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar:
The Godfather (1972)
,
The Godfather Part II (1974)
and
The Deer Hunter (1978)
. All three are winners in the category.
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