Robert Swink, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American film editor
Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1918
Place of Birth: Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States
Date of Death: 15-Aug-2000
Profession: film editor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Robert Swink
- Robert Swink (June 3, 1918 – August 15, 2000) was an American film editor who edited nearly 60 feature films during a career that spanned 46 years.Born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, Swink and his family moved to Hollywood in 1927.
- After graduating from North Hollywood High School in 1936, he joined RKO Pictures as an editing apprentice.
- During World War II, he edited training films for the Army Special Services.
- His first screen credit was the 1943 comedy short Double Up. For the next five years, Swink edited mostly B movies until George Stevens hired him for I Remember Mama (1948).
- He edited several Westerns in 1950, and the following year was hired by William Wyler to work on Detective Story.
- It was the first of 11 projects on which the two men collaborated.
- Swink left RKO to join Wyler at Paramount in 1952, and his credits at the studio include Carrie (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), and The Desperate Hours (1955).
- Among his assistants in this era was Hal Ashby, who became a distinguished editor and director.In 1964, Swink edited The Best Man for Franklin J.
- Schaffner.
- They worked together on four additional films, including Papillon (1973), Islands in the Stream (1977), The Boys from Brazil (1978), and Sphinx (1981).
- Swink came out of retirement to edit the 1989 film Welcome Home when Schaffner died right after completing principal photography on the project.Swink worked as a second unit director on The Big Country (1958), The Collector (1965), How to Steal a Million (1968), The Only Game in Town (1970), and The Liberation of L.B.
- Jones (1970).
- Swink was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Roman Holiday (1953), Funny Girl (1968), and The Boys from Brazil (1978).
- He received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 1993. Swink died of a heart attack in Santa Maria, California.
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