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Elmo Williams died at his home in Brookings on November 25, 2015, at the age of 102. Elmo's brother Burch Williams was killed in an accident when a biplane crashed into the helicopter Burch was in during the filming of aerial sequences for the 1971 film Zeppelin. References
Elmo Williams was born James Elmo Williams in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Orphaned at 16, he attended schools in Oklahoma and New Mexico before moving to Los Angeles. In 1933 he struck up a relationship with film editor Merrill G. White, who hired Williams as his assistant on a business trip to England.
- April 30, 1913
- November 25, 2015
Elmo Williams was born James Elmo Williams in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Orphaned at 16, he attended schools in Oklahoma and New Mexico before moving to Los Angeles. In 1933 he struck up a relationship with film editor Merrill G. White, who hired Williams as his assistant on a business trip to England.
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- Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, USA
- January 1, 1
- Brookings, Oregon, USA
The Cowboy: Directed by Elmo Williams. With Tex Ritter, William Conrad, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin. A one-family documentary from Elmo Williams and his wife Lorraine.
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- Elmo Williams
- 1954-05-28
An Academy Award–winning film editor and a motion-picture director and producer, Elmo Williams was born James Elmo Williams in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, on April 30, 1913, to Oscar and Audra Etter Williams. In the 1920s the Williams family moved to New Mexico, where they homesteaded.
Dec 7, 2015 · By his mid-teens Williams’s parents were dead and he took a series of jobs to support his siblings. One job was driving across America to deliver cars, which is how he wound up in Los Angeles and...
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Jun 23, 2014 · Elmo Williams, who won the film editing Oscar in 1953 for “High Noon,” and who later became a producer and eventually head of production for 20th Century Fox, has died at age 102.