The Thing
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Christian Nyby (September 1, 1913 – September 17, 1993) was an American television and film director and editor. As an editor, he had seventeen feature film credits from 1943 to 1952, including The Big Sleep (1946) and Red River (1948). From 1953 to 1975 he was a prolific director of episodes in many television series, including Gunsmoke and Wagon Train.
Christian Nyby. Editor: Red River. Christian Nyby, the television and movie director who achieved acclaim as a film editor before moving into the director's chair, was born on September 1, 1913, in Los Angeles, California. He made his reputation as a cutter during the 1940s, when he worked with the great helmer Howard Hawks, winning his sole Academy Award nomination for the editing of Hawks ...
Christian I. Nyby II. Director: Emergency!. The day after Nyby graduated from Van Nuys High School in California in 1959, he drove to north central Idaho, following a friend to the University of Idaho for college. He stayed at Idaho for two years as a member of the swim team and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity before transferring to USC. In 1963, the Air Force sent Nyby to Vietnam as...
Dec 4, 1993 · Christian Nyby, film director and editor: born Los Angeles 1 September 1913; married (two sons); died Temcula, California 17 September 1993.
Christian I. Nyby II (born Christian Ib Nyby June 1, 1941) is an American television director, son of film editor and director Christian Nyby. Education. Nyby graduated from Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys, California in 1959.
Thriller and action director of sporadic output whose debut film, the tense sci-fi classic, "The Thing" (1952), is often credited to its producer, Howard Hawks. Nyby went on to helm a handful of atmospheric sci-fi and action films through the 1960s.
Sep 17, 1993 · Christian Nyby is known as an Director, Editor, Producer, and Associate Producer. Some of his work includes The Twilight Zone, The Thing from Another World, Bonanza, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gilligan's Island, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, and Kojak.
Other articles where Christian Nyby is discussed: The Thing from Another World: …the movie is credited to Christian Nyby, but some have claimed that producer Hawks actually directed many of the scenes, though he allowed Nyby to take screen credit. The film was loosely based on the short story “Who Goes There?” by the influential science-fiction author and editor John W. Campbell,…
The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer.
Jun 5, 2014 · The following is excerpted from an interview with editor Christian Nyby that critic Ric Gentry conducted in 1991. It originally appeared in the journal Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities in fall 2005. Nyby cut four films for director Howard Hawks—To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), and The Big Sky (1952)—and went on to become a film and ...
