Harold F. Kress

Harold Frank Kress was an American film editor and director. He worked on more than 60 feature films between 1939 and 1978. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for How the West Was Won and again for The Towering Inferno, and was nominated an additional four times. Kress also worked publicly to increase the recognition of editing as a component of Hollywood filmmaking. He was one-time President of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and a board member of the American Cinema Editors.