# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-f-kress
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:40:53.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-f-kress"
name: "Harold F. Kress"
slug: "harold-f-kress"
description: "Harold Frank Kress was an American film editor with more than fifty feature film credits; he also directed several feature films in the early 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for How the West Was Won (1962) and again for The Towering Inferno (1974), and was nominated for four additional films; he is among the film editors most recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He also worked publicly to increase the recognition of editing as a component of Hollywood filmmaking."
tagline: "American film editor (1913-1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harold_Kress.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1913-06-26"
deathDate: "1999-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.86
  momentum:             0.07547169811320756
  historical:           8.076278666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470932/"
    handle:    "nm0470932"
sources:
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    title: "Harold F. Kress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارولد إف. كريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارولد اف. كريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_F._Kress"
    title: "Harold F. Kress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_F._Kress"
    title: "Harold F. Kress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%81._%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "هارولد اف. کرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_F._Kress"
    title: "Harold F. Kress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ハロルド・F・クレス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7510"
    title: "Harold F. Kress"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump