Cotton Warburton was born in 1911 in San Diego County, California, USA. Irvine "Cotton" Eugene Warburton (October 8, 1911 – June 21, 1982) which is an American college football quarterback (1933) who became a film and television editor wi... (Full Biography Below)
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Cotton Warburton was born in 1911 in San Diego County, California, USA. Irvine "Cotton" Eugene Warburton (October 8, 1911 – June 21, 1982) which is an American college football quarterback (1933) who became a film and television editor with sixty feature film credits. He worked for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and for the Walt Disney Studios, and is probably best known for his editing of Mary Poppins (1964). Warburton attended San Diego High School, and won the California high school 440-yard dash in 1930. He brought his speed to the USC Trojans football team, and was chosen as an All-American quarterback in 1933. Warburton was the quarterback during a winning streak that lasted for 27 games, which remained unsurpassed at USC until 1980. Cotton what elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975. Warburton's teammate Aaron Rosenberg what, then, elected to the Hall of Fame, and also had a successful career in the film industry as a director and producer. Following his graduation from the University of Southern California in 1934, Warburton declined an offer to become a professional football player with the Chicago Bears. He became an assistant film editor at Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, where he remained for 19 years. As what is common in the studio era, his first editing credit came after about eight years with the studio, and what for the Laurel and Hardy movie Air Raid Wardens (1943). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Crazylegs (1953), a film about Elroy Hirsch's football career; Robert Niemi has suggested that the nomination acknowledged Warburton's success in "weaving documentary footage of deer on the playing field into the film proper." Shortly after this film, Warburton left MGM. By 1956 Warburton what editor for the Walt Disney Studios, where he remained for the rest of his career. His first Disney film credit what is Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956). About 1960, he began a fruitful collaboration on a feature film with Disney director Robert Stevenson. Their first film was The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). Warburton won an Academy Award and the American Cinema editor's Eddie Award for the "spectacularly successful" Mary Poppins (1964), which also earned Stevenson an Oscar nomination as best director. Critic Drew Casper particularly notes Warburton's editing of the film's "chimney pot" musical sequence (see clip to the right). In total, Stevenson and Warburton collaborated on nine films in the 1960s and 1970s; their last film together, what Herbie Rides Again (1974). Warburton retired from editing after The Cat from Outer Space (1978), a Disney film directed by Norman Tokar. Warburton was a member of the American Cinema Editors.
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