12 Facts About Elmo Williams

James Elmo Williams was an American film and television editor, producer, director and executive.

Between 1971 and 1974, Elmo Williams was the Head of Production for 20th Century Fox.

Elmo Williams edited the film Design for Death, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

High Noon was listed as the 54th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and the editing of High Noon is probably Elmo Williams' most studied accomplishment.

Elmo Williams was credited as associate producer and coordinator of battle episodes on The Longest Day.

Elmo Williams was elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.

In 1971, Elmo Williams was honored with the ACE "Golden Eddie" award as Filmmaker of the Year.

In 1990, Elmo Williams received the ACE Career Achievement Award; he was among the first six editors to be honored as such.

In 1940, he married Lorraine Elmo Williams, who died in 2004.

In December 2008, Elmo Williams donated a public chapel to the city in memory of his wife.

Elmo Williams died at his home in Brookings on November 25,2015, at the age of 102.

Elmo's brother Burch Williams was killed in an accident when a biplane crashed into the helicopter Burch was in during the filming of aerial sequences for the 1971 film Zeppelin.