Background
Reynolds, William Henry was born on June 14, 1910 in Elmira, New York, United States.
Reynolds, William Henry was born on June 14, 1910 in Elmira, New York, United States.
Graduate, Princeton University.
His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point. He became a protégé of film editor Robert Simpson, who brought him to Paramount Pictures as his assistant in 1936. The following year, he edited his first project, the musical film 52nd Street.
In 1942, he joined 20th Century Fox, where he remained for twenty-eight years.
lieutenant was there that he frequently collaborated with two notable directors. Foreign Robert Wise, he edited The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Sound of Music, The Sand Pebbles, Star!, and Two People.
His work for Joshua Logan included Business Stop, South Pacific, Fanny, and Ensign Pulver. Additional credits include Algiers, Come to the Stable, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, Three Coins in the Fountain, Good Morning, Mission Dove, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Carousel, Compulsion, Wild River, Taras Bulba, Hello, Dolly!, The Great White Hope, The Great Waldo Pepper, Nijinsky, Author! Author!, The Little Drummer Girl, Newsies, and the television adaptation of Gypsy.
Reynolds died of cancer in South Pasadena, California.
Born in Elmira, New York, Reynolds began his career in 1934 as a member of the swing gang at 20th Century Fox.