Archie Marshek(1902-1992)
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Producer
Archie F. Marshek was an American movie and TV editor whose 44-year
career spanned six decades from 1927 to 1971. Born on February 15, 1902
in Cass Lake, Minnesota, he started his career at
Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking
Offices of America (FBO) in 1927. When Kennedy formed R.K.O. in 1929 by
merging F.B.O. with the Keith-Orpheum vaudeville circuit and striking a
deal with David Sarnoff of Radio
Corporation of America in order to access his sound technology patents,
Marshek moved to the new studio. He served as a staff editor at
R.K.O.-Radio Pictures from 1929 to 1936 and then at Paramount Pictures
from 1937 to 1967. He also was the associate producer on
Son of Kong (1933), his only
foray beyond the movieola.
Marshek's main claim to fame is that he was the first editor to cut a three-strip, live-action Technicolor film, the 1934 short La Cucaracha (1934). The next year, he became the first to cut a full-length, three-strip Technicolor feature movie, Becky Sharp (1935). He worked with such top directors as King Vidor, Gregory La Cava, Lewis Milestone, and Rouben Mamoulian. He also was the editor for the feature film directing debuts of the Oscar-winning actors Anthony Quinn (The Buccaneer (1958)) and Marlon Brando (One-Eyed Jacks (1961)). At Paramount, he edited films featuring the studio's top stars, including Bing Crosby and Bob Hope both individually and as a team, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as a team and Lewis as a solo act, and Elvis Presley.
Archie Marshek died on March 29, 1992 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was 90 years old.
Marshek's main claim to fame is that he was the first editor to cut a three-strip, live-action Technicolor film, the 1934 short La Cucaracha (1934). The next year, he became the first to cut a full-length, three-strip Technicolor feature movie, Becky Sharp (1935). He worked with such top directors as King Vidor, Gregory La Cava, Lewis Milestone, and Rouben Mamoulian. He also was the editor for the feature film directing debuts of the Oscar-winning actors Anthony Quinn (The Buccaneer (1958)) and Marlon Brando (One-Eyed Jacks (1961)). At Paramount, he edited films featuring the studio's top stars, including Bing Crosby and Bob Hope both individually and as a team, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as a team and Lewis as a solo act, and Elvis Presley.
Archie Marshek died on March 29, 1992 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was 90 years old.
