Mark Robson

Gender: Male
Born: 4th December 1913
Died: 20th June 1978
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Prize of Gold, Avalanche Express, Bedlam, Bright Victory, Champion, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, Earthquake, Edge of Doom, From the Terrace, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, Hell Below Zero, Home of the Brave, I Want You, Isle of the Dead, Limbo, Lost Command, My Foolish Heart, Nine Hours to Rama, Peyton Place, Phffft!, Return to Paradise, Roughshod, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, The Ghost Ship, The Harder They Fall, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The Little Hut, The Prize, The Seventh Victim, Trial, Valley of the Dolls, Von Ryan's Express, Youth Runs Wild

Mark Robson (4 December 1913 – 20 June 1978) was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor. In 1940 he worked as an assistant to Robert Wise on the editing of Citizen Kane in addition to several other films. Both he and Wise benefited tremendously from producer and screenwriter Val Lewton, who promoted Robson from film editor to production assistant and later as director. In 1943, at the insistence of Lewton, Robson assisted Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur in a series of low-budget horror films produced by Val Lewton, including Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie. Later, Lewton was instrumental in promoting Robson to the director's chair for films such as The Seventh Victim (1943), Robson's first directing credit, and the troubled Isle of the Dead (1945).

His success at RKO lead to work on major film projects and in 1949 he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America

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