Biography for
Gene Fowler Jr. More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

27 May 1917, Denver, Colorado, USA

Date of Death

11 May 1998, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (natural causes)

Spouse

Marjorie Fowler

(September 1944 - 11 May 1998) (his death) 1 child

Trivia

Son of screenwriter-novelist Gene Fowler and Agnes Fowler.

Son-in-law of Nunnally Johnson and Dorris Bowdon.

Father of Gene N. Fowler.

President of the American Cinema Editors, 1965 and 1966.

Won the Golden Globe Award as editor of "Wall of Fire". Also received four Emmy Awards for The Blue Knight (1973) (TV), The Glass House (1972) (TV), "The Waltons" (1971) and "Rawhide" (1959). Academy Award winner for the documentary, Seeds of Destiny (1946), while on service with the U.S. Army Special Services in World War II.

Originally trained for a life on the seas at Maritime School and was a fully qualified third mate by the time his family moved from New York to Southern California. Fowler then changed career paths and learned film editing at 20th Century Fox.

Uncle-in-law of Jack Johnson.

Many of his friends and colleagues remarked on how he bore an astonishing resemblance to Spencer Tracy.

Personal Quotes

[on I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)] I guess the other producers must have been spending just about the same amount of money that we were, but their pictures were such shit. I did not try to make just an exploitation picture. I was trying to do something with a little substance to it.