# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-hornbeck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:40:13.192Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-hornbeck"
name: "William Hornbeck"
slug: "william-hornbeck"
description: "William Hornbeck was an American film editor and film industry executive. In a 1977 poll of film editors, he had been called \"the best film editor the industry has produced.\"\nHe was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, and won the award for A Place in the Sun (1951). Other important credits include It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Giant (1956), and I Want to Live! (1958). He edited films from notable directors including Zoltan Korda, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Universal Pictures almost brought him on board to completely re-edit George Lucas' American Graffiti."
tagline: "Film editor (1901–1983)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1901-08-23"
deathDate: "1983-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.76
  momentum:             1.166666666666667
  historical:           8.542981333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394962/"
    handle:    "nm0394962"
sources:
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    title: "William Hornbeck"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Hornbeck"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hornbeck"
    title: "William Hornbeck"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Hornbeck"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hornbeck"
    title: "William Hornbeck"
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    title: "Ուիլյամ Հորնբեկ"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hornbeck"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460045"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "William Hornbeck"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump