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Music Editor
Born:
1931 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Death:
June 8, 2003 in Burbank, CA
Biography:Though he began his career as a film editor, Stephen A. Hope would ultimately find his niche in Hollywood as a music editor. Hope's prolific output during the 1980s ensured that some of the most popular films of the decade would be music to audiences ears. A Hollywood native and the son of Oscar-winning art decorator Frederic Hope, young Stephen harbored a love for music from the age of four. Educated at Cal State Long Beach, he subsequently went on to enlist in the Air Force. Though Hope would find work as a film editor at Desilu Studios in the 1950s (where he would also meet future wife Mary Elizabeth Hughes), his lifelong love of music led him to found a music editorial company, and in 1976 he received his first feature credit with the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Though he would round out the decade with work on both National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1979), it... Full Biography
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