Philip Cahn | |
Birth Date: | June 18, 1894 |
Birth Place: | New York, New York United States |
Death Date: | September 28, 1984 (aged 90) |
Death Place: | Thousand Oaks, California United States |
Occupation: | Film editor |
Yearsactive: | 1930 - 1962 (film) |
Philip Cahn (1894–1984) was an American film editor who edited more than eighty films and television series.[1] He also directed the 1935 film I've Been Around.
Philip Cahn, I. James Wilkinson and Ben Lewis founded The Society of Motion Picture Film Editors in 1937, which was renamed the Motion Picture Editors Guild in 1944.[2]
Philip Cahn was the brother of the director Edward L. Cahn and the father of the editor Dann Cahn.