Michael Luciano was an American film and television editor with about forty feature film credits and many additional credits for television programs.
17 Facts About Michael Luciano
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From 1954 to 1977, Luciano edited 20 of the films directed, and often produced, by Robert Aldrich.
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Michael Luciano's first credit is as the editor of The Luck of Roaring Camp, a 1937 film produced by Monogram Pictures, which was a "Poverty Row" studio.
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Michael Luciano edited Gang War, which was produced by Million Dollar Productions.
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Also in 1947, Luciano was the assistant to editors Robert Parrish and Francis D Lyon on the boxing film Body and Soul, which was directed by Robert Rossen.
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Michael Luciano worked for Parrish again as the "montage editor" on the 1949 film, Caught, and then co-edited the 1951 documentary Of Men and Music with Parrish and two others.
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Parrish subsequently moved into directing, and Michael Luciano was the editor for Parrish's 1959 western, The Wonderful Country.
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Michael Luciano asked Luciano to edit the 1954 film World for Ransom, which was the first film he produced and directed.
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In 1955 Michael Luciano edited Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly, which is an important film noir that is in the National Film Registry.
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Michael Luciano edited almost all of Aldrich's films that followed Kiss Me Deadly, including three in the following year.
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Michael Luciano won the Eddie award for the picture, and was again nominated for the Oscar.
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The final film of the long Aldrich-Michael Luciano collaboration was Twilight's Last Gleaming.
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Michael Luciano edited several more features before his retirement around 1982, including Stripes, which was directed by Ivan Reitman.
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In 1956, Michael Luciano edited one episode of Gunsmoke that was directed by Charles Marquis Warren, and over the next two years Michael Luciano edited three feature films directed by Warren.
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Michael Luciano was nominated for an Eddie for a 1964 episode of the television program Bewitched.
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Michael Luciano's editing has been noted in several books and articles.
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Michael Luciano had been selected as a member of the American Cinema Editors.