Gene Milford

During WWII, Milford headed the film editorial department for the Office of War Information where he worked on the feature documentary "The World at War" while continuing to edit Hollywood product. After the war Milford was made chief of the Atomic Energy Commission's film editorial department at Lookout Mountain, California. He made his directorial debut on TV with the "The Faye Emerson Show" and segments of "Omnibus" during the 1950s, and headed the editorial department for the CBS series, "See It Now." From 1955 to 1961 Milford served as president of M-K-R where he directed and edited 15 medical and scientific documentaries, many for TV. Milford returned to feature films to work with director Elia Kazan with "On the Waterfront" (1954), for which he won his second Academy Award. He also edited Kazan's "Baby Doll" (1956), "A Face in the Crowd" (1957) and "Splendor in the Grass" (1961) as well as Arthur Penn's "The Chase" (1966) and three Terence Young films, "Wait Until Dark" (1967), "The Klansman" (1974) and the Korean financed and notably awful "Inchon" (1982).