# Louis Loeffler

Louis R. Loeffler (February 24, 1897 – April 22, 1972) was an American film editor. Through his five-decade career, he worked on over 100 films, including In Old Arizona (1928), Hotel for Women (1939), In the Meantime, Darling (1944), Laura (1944), The Iron Curtain (1948), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), River of No Return (1954), and Anatomy of a Murder (1959). He was nominated for two Academy Awards for film editing in 1960 and 1963 for the films Anatomy of a Murder and The Cardinal, respectively.

## Filmography

Editor :
| Year | Film | Director | Notes | Other notes |
| 1927 | Chain Lightning | Lambert Hillyer | | |
| 1928 | The Red Dance | Raoul Walsh | First collaboration with Raoul Walsh | |
| 1928 | Me, Gangster | Raoul Walsh | Second collaboration with Raoul Walsh | |
| 1928 | In Old Arizona | Irving CummingsRaoul Walsh | Third collaboration with Raoul Walsh | |
| 1929 | Thru Different Eyes | John G. Blystone | First collaboration with John G. Blystone | |
| 1930 | One Mad Kiss | Marcel SilverJames Tinling | First collaboration with James Tinling | |
| 1930 | Del Mismo Barro | David Howard | | |
| 1930 | Lightnin' | Henry King | | |
| 1932 | Amateur Daddy | John G. Blystone | Second collaboration with John G. Blystone | |
| 1932 | Week Ends Only | Alan Crosland | | |
| 1933 | Pilgrimage | John Ford | First collaboration with John Ford | Uncredited |
| 1933 | Arizona to Broadway | James Tinling | Second collaboration with James Tinling | |
| 1933 | Doctor Bull | John Ford | Second collaboration with John Ford | |
| 1935 | Your Uncle Dudley | Eugene Forde | First collaboration with Eugene Forde | |
| 1936 | Here Comes Trouble | Lewis Seiler | First collaboration with Lewis Seiler | |
| 1936 | Human Cargo | Allan Dwan | First collaboration with Allan Dwan | |
| 1936 | Educating Father | James Tinling | Third collaboration with James Tinling | |
| 1936 | High Tension | Allan Dwan | Second collaboration with Allan Dwan | |
| 1936 | 36 Hours to Kill | Eugene Forde | Second collaboration with Eugene Forde | |
| 1936 | Can This Be Dixie? | George Marshall | First collaboration with George Marshall | |
| 1936 | Career Woman | Lewis Seiler | Second collaboration with Lewis Seiler | |
| 1937 | Fair Warning | Norman Foster | First collaboration with Norman Foster | |
| 1937 | That I May Live | Allan Dwan | Third collaboration with Allan Dwan | |
| 1937 | She Had to Eat | Malcolm St. Clair | | |
| 1937 | Life Begins in College | William A. Seiter | | |
| 1937 | Lancer Spy | Gregory Ratoff | First collaboration with Gregory Ratoff | |
| 1938 | Happy Landing | Roy Del Ruth | First collaboration with Roy Del Ruth | |
| 1938 | Four Men and a Prayer | John Ford | Third collaboration with John Ford | |
| 1938 | I'll Give a Million | Walter Lang | First collaboration with Walter Lang | |
| 1938 | Hold That Co-Ed | George Marshall | Second collaboration with George Marshall | |
| 1939 | The Little Princess | Walter Lang | Second collaboration with Walter Lang | |
| 1939 | Rose of Washington Square | Gregory Ratoff | Second collaboration with Gregory Ratoff | |
| 1939 | Hotel for Women | Gregory Ratoff | Third collaboration with Gregory Ratoff | |
| 1939 | Here I Am a Stranger | Roy Del Ruth | Second collaboration with Roy Del Ruth | |
| 1939 | Swanee River | Sidney Lanfield | | |
| 1940 | Girl in 313 | Ricardo Cortez | | |
| 1940 | Earthbound | Irving Pichel | First collaboration with Irving Pichel | |
| 1940 | Girl from Avenue A | Otto Brower | | |
| 1940 | Murder Over New York | Harry Lachman | | |
| 1941 | Ride, Kelly, Ride | Norman Foster | Second collaboration with Norman Foster | |
| 1941 | Ride on Vaquero | Herbert I. Leeds | First collaboration with Herbert I. Leeds | |
| 1941 | Dance Hall | Irving Pichel | Second collaboration with Irving Pichel | |
| 1941 | Marry the Boss's Daughter | Thornton Freeland | | |
| 1942 | Right to the Heart | Eugene Forde | Third collaboration with Eugene Forde | |
| 1942 | Young America | Louis King | | |
| 1942 | Who Is Hope Schuyler? | Thomas Z. Loring | First collaboration with Thomas Z. Loring | |
| 1942 | Thru Different Eyes | Thomas Z. Loring | Second collaboration with Thomas Z. Loring | |
| 1942 | Just Off Broadway | Herbert I. Leeds | Second collaboration with Herbert I. Leeds | |
| 1942 | Quiet Please, Murder | John Larkin | | |
| 1943 | Margin for Error | Otto Preminger | First collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1943 | The Moon Is Down | Irving Pichel | Third collaboration with Irving Pichel | |
| 1943 | He Hired the Boss | Thomas Z. Loring | Third collaboration with Thomas Z. Loring | |
| 1943 | Wintertime | John Brahm | | |
| 1944 | The Fighting Sullivans | Lloyd Bacon | First collaboration with Lloyd Bacon | |
| 1944 | In the Meantime, Darling | Otto Preminger | Second collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1944 | Laura | Otto Preminger | Third collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1945 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Gabriel Pascal | | Uncredited |
| 1946 | Home Sweet Homicide | Lloyd Bacon | Second collaboration with Lloyd Bacon | |
| 1947 | I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now | Lloyd Bacon | Third collaboration with Lloyd Bacon | |
| 1947 | Forever Amber | Otto Preminger | Fourth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1947 | Daisy Kenyon | Otto Preminger | Fifth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1948 | The Iron Curtain | William A. Wellman | | |
| 1948 | That Wonderful Urge | Robert B. Sinclair | | |
| 1949 | The Fan | Otto Preminger | Sixth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1949 | Oh, You Beautiful Doll | John M. Stahl | | |
| 1949 | Dancing in the Dark | Irving Reis | | |
| 1950 | Whirlpool | Otto Preminger | Seventh collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1950 | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Otto Preminger | Eighth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1950 | Two Flags West | Robert Wise | | |
| 1951 | The 13th Letter | Otto Preminger | Ninth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1951 | Call Me Mister | Lloyd Bacon | Fourth collaboration with Lloyd Bacon | |
| 1951 | Golden Girl | Lloyd Bacon | Fifth collaboration with Lloyd Bacon | |
| 1952 | Return of the Texan | Delmer Daves | | |
| 1952 | Down Among the Sheltering Palms | Edmund Goulding | First collaboration with Edmund Goulding | |
| 1952 | We're Not Married! | Edmund Goulding | Second collaboration with Edmund Goulding | |
| 1952 | My Cousin Rachel | Henry Koster | | |
| 1953 | The I Don't Care Girl | Lloyd Bacon | Sixth collaboration with Lloyd Bacon | |
| 1953 | Titanic | Jean Negulesco | First collaboration with Jean Negulesco | |
| 1953 | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Henry Levin | | |
| 1953 | How to Marry a Millionaire | Jean Negulesco | Second collaboration with Jean Negulesco | |
| 1954 | River of No Return | Otto Preminger | Tenth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1954 | Woman's World | Jean Negulesco | Third collaboration with Jean Negulesco | |
| 1954 | Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | Eleventh collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1955 | Violent Saturday | Richard Fleischer | | |
| 1955 | How to Be Very, Very Popular | Nunnally Johnson | First collaboration with Nunnally Johnson | |
| 1955 | The Tall Men | Raoul Walsh | Fourth collaboration with Raoul Walsh | |
| 1955 | The Man with the Golden Arm | Otto Preminger | Twelfth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1956 | The Revolt of Mamie Stover | Raoul Walsh | Fifth collaboration with Raoul Walsh | |
| 1956 | Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | | |
| 1956 | The King and Four Queens | Raoul Walsh | Sixth collaboration with Raoul Walsh | |
| 1957 | The Wayward Bus | Victor Vicas | | |
| 1957 | No Down Payment | Martin Ritt | First collaboration with Martin Ritt | |
| 1958 | The Long, Hot Summer | Martin Ritt | Second collaboration with Martin Ritt | |
| 1958 | A Certain Smile | Jean Negulesco | Fourth collaboration with Jean Negulesco | |
| 1958 | Rally Round the Flag, Boys! | Leo McCarey | | |
| 1959 | Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger | Thirteenth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1959 | Hound-Dog Man | Don Siegel | | |
| 1960 | The Angel Wore Red | Nunnally Johnson | Second collaboration with Nunnally Johnson | |
| 1960 | Exodus | Otto Preminger | Fourteenth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1961 | Francis of Assisi | Michael Curtiz | First collaboration with Michael Curtiz | |
| 1961 | The Comancheros | Michael Curtiz | Second collaboration with Michael Curtiz | |
| 1962 | Advise & Consent | Otto Preminger | Fifteenth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1963 | The Cardinal | Otto Preminger | Sixteenth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
| 1964 | Shock Treatment | Denis Sanders | | |
| 1964 | The Pleasure Seekers | Jean Negulesco | Fifth collaboration with Jean Negulesco | |
| 1967 | Hurry Sundown | Otto Preminger | Seventeenth collaboration with Otto Preminger | |
Editorial department :
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
| 1956 | The King and Four Queens | Raoul Walsh | Supervising editor |
Director :
| Year | Film | Notes |
| 1930 | The Big Trail | Uncredited |
| 1931 | Il Grande Sentiero | |
Special effects :
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | Alfred Hitchcock | Special effects cutter | Uncredited |

### TV series

Editor :
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1959 | Adventures in Paradise | 1 episode |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone | 1 episode |