| Hugh S. Fowler | |
| Birth Date: | July 24, 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Missouri, United States |
| Death Date: | August 2, 1975 |
| Death Place: | Manhattan Beach, California, United States |
| Occupation: | Film editor |
Hugh S. Fowler (July 24, 1912 – August 2, 1975) was an American film editor with about 38 feature film credits from 1952 – 1972.[1] He was named after his Grandmother, Mary Ann Stirling, whose family occupied the Stirling Castle in Scotland for 400 years. She married William Kirk Fowler of Auchtermuchty, County Fife, and they emigrated to the U.S. in 1852.
Fowler spent his virtually his entire editing career at Twentieth Century-Fox. After spending years helping other film editors, including Louis Loeffler, Barbara McLean, William H. Reynolds and Robert Simpson, Fowler was promoted to film editor full-time in 1952; his first movie as a film editor was Phone Call from a Stranger, released that year and directed by Jean Negulesco. Although he edited only 38 movies in a 20-year career, all of them Twentieth releases, he edited some of the greatest scenes in the studio's history. Two of them involved the same actress, Marilyn Monroe: her performance of the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (directed by Howard Hawks - 1953) and her blown-skirt scene in The Seven Year Itch (directed by Billy Wilder-1955).
It was not until eight years after Monroe's death that Fowler won his Oscar, for the movie Patton (1970). His final movie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), was directed by John Huston. Fowler died in California three years later. Fowler is remembered for editing primarily Twentieth theatrical releases directed by freelancers, including Howard Hawks (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Franklin J. Schaffner (Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton), Frank Tashlin (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)) and Billy Wilder (The Seven Year Itch).
| Year | Film | Director | Notes | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Phone Call from a Stranger | Jean Negulesco | First collaboration with Jean Negulesco | |
| Les Misérables | Lewis Milestone | |||
| Something for the Birds | Robert Wise | |||
| 1953 | Taxi | Gregory Ratoff | ||
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Howard Hawks | |||
| 1955 | The Seven Year Itch | Billy Wilder | ||
| Seven Cities of Gold | Robert D. Webb | First collaboration with Robert D. Webb | ||
| 1956 | On the Threshold of Space | Second collaboration with Robert D. Webb | ||
| The Proud Ones | Third collaboration with Robert D. Webb | |||
| The Last Wagon | Delmer Daves | |||
| Love Me Tender | Robert D. Webb | Fourth collaboration with Robert D. Webb | ||
| 1957 | The Way to the Gold | Fifth collaboration with Robert D. Webb | ||
| Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Frank Tashlin | First collaboration with Frank Tashlin | ||
| 1958 | The Gift of Love | Jean Negulesco | Second collaboration with Jean Negulesco | |
| A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed | Henry Levin | |||
| The Fiend Who Walked the West | Gordon Douglas | First collaboration with Gordon Douglas | ||
| 1959 | These Thousand Hills | Richard Fleischer | ||
| Say One for Me | Frank Tashlin | Second collaboration with Frank Tashlin | ||
| The Story on Page One | Clifford Odets | |||
| 1960 | The Lost World | Irwin Allen | ||
| Flaming Star | Don Siegel | |||
| 1961 | Pirates of Tortuga | Robert D. Webb | Sixth collaboration with Robert D. Webb | |
| Bachelor Flat | Frank Tashlin | Third collaboration with Frank Tashlin | ||
| 1962 | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | Martin Ritt | ||
| 1963 | The List of Adrian Messenger | John Huston | First collaboration with John Huston | |
| Twilight of Honor | Boris Sagal | |||
| 1965 | In Harm's Way | Otto Preminger | ||
| Wild Seed | Brian G. Hutton | |||
| 1966 | Stagecoach | Gordon Douglas | Second collaboration with Gordon Douglas | |
| ...And Now Miguel | James B. Clark | |||
| Way... Way Out | Gordon Douglas | Third collaboration with Gordon Douglas | ||
| 1967 | In Like Flint | Fourth collaboration with Gordon Douglas | ||
| 1968 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | First collaboration with Franklin J. Schaffner | |
| 1969 | Pendulum | George Schaefer | ||
| 1970 | Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner | Second collaboration with Franklin J. Schaffner | |
| 1972 | Corky | Leonard Horn | ||
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | John Huston | Second collaboration with John Huston |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Valentine's Day | 1 episode |
| 1969 | Then Came Bronson | |
| The Survivors | 2 episodes |