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Director, Editor Born: 1894 in Los Angeles, CA Death: October 21, 1979 in Oceanside, CA Biography:Another graduate of the Hollywood property-man ranks, "Stuart Heisler" was firmly established as a top film editor by the early 1930s. He was given his first chance to direct on the second unit of "John Ford"'s "The Hurricane" (1937). Heisler's first solo directorial effort would remain his finest film: "The Biscuit Eater" (1940), an unpretentious Paramount "B"-pic that ended up as the "sleeper" of the season. After a brace of atmospheric horror films, "The Monster and the Girl" (1941) and "Among the Living" (1941), Heisler was promoted to "A" projects along the lines of 1942's "The Glass Key". Heisler's output thereafter became unpredictably uneven. On the plus side, he was seen in the anti-KKK drama "Storm Warning" (1950), the gaudy "Bette Davis" vehicle "The Star" (1952), and the worthwhile Technicolor "High Sierra" remake "I Died a Thousand Times" (1955). On the minus side, audiences were subjected... Full Biography
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