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Rudolf “Rudi” Fehr (July 6, 1911 – April 16, 1999) was a German-born, American film editor and studio executive. He had more than thirty credits as an editor, and worked for more than twenty years as the head of production at the Warner Brothers studio. Fehr was born in Berlin, Germany. He decided upon a career in the film industry, and edited his first film, Der Schlemihl, in 1931. He then worked for several years with the producer Sam Spiegel, moving from Germany to Austria and England to avoid the restrictions of the Nazi regime. In 1935 he worked on the editing of the Buster... MORE

Rudolf “Rudi” Fehr (July 6, 1911 – April 16, 1999) was a German-born, American film editor and studio executive. He had more than thirty credits as an editor, and worked for more than twenty years as the head of production at the Warner Brothers studio. Fehr was born in Berlin, Germany. He decided upon a career in the film industry, and edited his first film, Der Schlemihl, in 1931. He then worked for several years with the producer Sam Spiegel, moving from Germany to Austria and England to avoid the restrictions of the Nazi regime. In 1935 he worked on the editing of the Buster Keaton film The Invader.In 1936, Fehr moved to Hollywood. Initially, he translated film from German into English for $60/week, but he soon landed a job with the Warner Brothers Studio, where he became an assistant editor to Warren Low. His first Hollywood editing credit was for the film My Love Came Back (1940). For the next fifteen years Fehr edited numerous studio films, including A Stolen Life (starring Bette Davis, 1946) and John Huston's Key Largo (starring Humphrey Bogart, 1948). In the early 1950s for Alfred Hitchcock, Fehr edited I Confess (1953) and Dial M for Murder (1954). In his obituary, Allen LESS