Philip Cahn
American film editor

Philip Cahn

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American film editor
Gender:
Male
Places:
United States of America
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Film editor
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
18 June 1894(New York City, USA)
Death:
28 September 1984(Thousand Oaks, USA)
Star sign:
Gemini
Family:
Children:
Dann Cahn
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Philip Cahn (1894–1984) was an American film editor who edited more than eighty films and television series. He also directed the 1935 film I've Been Around.

Together with I. James Wilkinson and Ben Lewis, Cahn founded The Society of Motion Picture Film Editors in 1937, which was renamed the Motion Picture Editors Guild in 1944.

Philip Cahn was the brother of the director Edward L. Cahn and the father of the editor Dann Cahn.

Selected filmography

  • King for a Night (1933)
  • I've Been Around (1935)
  • The Great Impersonation (1935)
  • The Affair of Susan (1935)
  • Alias Mary Dow (1935)
  • The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
  • Girl Overboard (1937)
  • Behind the Mike (1937)
  • Rio (1939)
  • The Big Guy (1939)
  • Senorita from the West (1945)
  • I Was an American Spy (1951)