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Robert E. Swink, a top-notch editor favored by directors no less scrupulous than William Wyler and Franklin J. Schaffner, first moved to Hollywood with his family in 1927, and made the place his home for the rest of his life. Following graduation from North Hollywood High in 1936, Swink turned down a football scholarship in favor of an apprenticeship in film editing at RKO, where he remained for years, barring a World War II hitch in the US Army Special Services, editing training films. Beginning in 1944, he was promoted to cutting feature films. In 1952 Swink moved over to Paramount, where he started out with William Wyler's Carrie (1952), and shortly thereafter received his first Academy Award nomination for Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953). In the three decades of steady work to follow, he would edit pictures as various as The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), The Best Man (1964), Papillon (1973) and Three the Hard Way (1974), and receive two further Oscar nominations, for Funny Girl (1968) and The Boys from Brazil (1978). As well, he served as second unit director on a handful of films, though unlike his contemporary Robert Wise he did not make the jump to director. He might have made an excellent one, judging from the crackerjack pacing and faultless dramatic instinct evident behind all the films he touched, and the respect he garnered from the frequently demanding directors who repeatedly hired him. Meaning to retire after completing Franklin Schaffner's Sphinx (1981) in 1981, Swink was coaxed out of retirement to supervise the editing of the finally unreleased feature "And They're Off." He returned to work one final time: as the favorite editor of director Schaffner (they had had five prior collaborations), he was the logical choice to assemble the footage for Welcome Home (1989), as Schaffner had died before the post-production phase.- Production Manager
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George E. Swink was born on 2 May 1922 in Rocky Ford, Colorado, USA. He was a production manager and producer, known for The Towering Inferno (1974), When Time Ran Out... (1980) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). He died on 22 August 2003 in Mission Viejo, California, USA.- Visual Effects
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Blaine Gibson was born on 11 February 1918 in Rocky Ford, Colorado, USA. He is known for Sleeping Beauty (1959), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He was married to Coral Estelle Comstock. He died on 5 July 2015 in Montecito, California, USA.- Additional Crew
Leo Sprinkle was born on 31 August 1930 in Rocky Ford, Colorado, USA. He is known for Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story (2013), The Force Beyond (1977) and Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton (2015). He died on 15 November 2021 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA.- Additional Crew
Dr. Paul Gebhard joined Alfred Kinsey's research team at Indiana University in 1946. He was a co-author of the 1953 bestselling research book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, which revealed sexual experiences of women in mid-century America. A Harvard-trained anthropologist, he conducted interviews and also devised the classification scheme for the Institute's extensive collection of photographs.
Following the death of Alfred Kinsey in 1956, Paul served as the second director of the Institute and continued in this position until 1982. Under his leadership, the institute staff continued to conduct interviews and analyze data. Notable books include Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion in 1958 and Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types in 1965.
During his tenure, the Kinsey Institute researchers continued ground-breaking research on homosexuality, sexual deviance, erotic art around the world, and the social structure of sexuality, among other topics.
In 1979, Gebhard and Alan Johnson published The Kinsey Data: Marginal tabulations of the 1938-1963 interviews conducted by The Institute for Sex Research. The primary purpose was to encourage secondary analysis and facilitate new approaches and ideas. The original Kinsey data continues to be analyzed and compared with new approaches by contemporary researchers.