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Peter Zinner, 88, Oscar-Winning Film Editor, Is DeadLOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (AP) — Peter Zinner, a longtime Hollywood film editor who worked on the first two Godfather movies and won an Oscar for the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, died on Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 88. The cause was complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, his daughter, Katina Zinner, said Friday. Mr. Zinners film editing on Francis Ford Coppolas 1972 mob drama, The Godfather, earned Mr. Zinner and his co-editor, William Reynolds, an Academy Award nomination. Working on the editing of the final sequence, Mr. Coppola said in an e-mail message, referring to the films baptism scene, Peter had the inspiration to add the organ music that pulled the sequence together. He also worked on The Godfather: Part II (1974). The Deer Hunter, the Vietnam War film that brought Mr. Zinner an Oscar for editing, also won an Academy Award for best picture. Mr. Zinner was later nominated for an Oscar for his work on the 1982 romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman. Mr. Zinners other notable movie-editing credits include In Cold Blood (1967) and A Star Is Born (1976). He also won Emmy Awards in editing for ABCs War and Remembrance in 1989 and HBOs Citizen Cohn in 1993. He appeared once as an actor, playing an admiral in The Hunt for Red October (1990), and directed one movie, The Salamander, a 1981 political thriller set in Italy with Anthony Quinn. Born in 1919 in Vienna, Peter Zinner, who was Jewish, escaped the Nazis with his family and moved to the Philippines in 1938. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1940 and played piano in silent movie theaters before landing a position as an apprentice film editor at 20th Century Fox in the early 1940s. He later worked at MGM and started his own company with two other film editors. Last year Mr. Zinner collaborated with his daughter, Katina, also a film editor, on the documentary Running With Arnold about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. Besides his daughter, Mr. Zinner is survived by his wife, Christa, a German-born artist whom he married in 1959, and a stepson, Dr. Nicolas Nelken. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationPaltrow’s mystery hospital visit...Romanian abortion film takes Cannes top honour... Tales from the ’wog squad’... Critic’s Choice | ’My Brother’s Wedding’: The Rough Poetry of Real Independence... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Peter Zinner, 88, Oscar-Winning Film Editor, Is Dead |
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