# William Lyon (film editor)

William Austin Lyon (January 21, 1903 – March 18, 1974) was an American film editor, from 1934 to 1971. He was born in Texas, and died in Los Angeles. Employed by Columbia Pictures for most of his career, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing six times, and won twice, for From Here to Eternity (1953) and Picnic (1955).

## Selected filmography

William Lyon began his career as an editor. Based on Lyon's filmography at the Internet Movie Database.
Editor :
| Year | Film | Director | Notes | Other notes |
| 1936 | Alibi for Murder | D. Ross Lederman | First collaboration with D. Ross Lederman | |
| 1936 | Code of the Range | Charles C. Coleman | First collaboration with Charles C. Coleman | |
| 1936 | The Cowboy Star | David Selman | First collaboration with David Selman | |
| 1937 | Find the Witness | David Selman | Second collaboration with David Selman | |
| 1937 | Trapped | Leon Barsha | First collaboration with Leon Barsha | |
| 1937 | Two Gun Law | Leon Barsha | Second collaboration with Leon Barsha | |
| 1937 | Two-Fisted Sheriff | Leon Barsha | Third collaboration with Leon Barsha | |
| 1937 | One Man Justice | Leon Barsha | Fourth collaboration with Leon Barsha | |
| 1937 | The Old Wyoming Trail | Folmar Blangsted | | |
| 1937 | I'll Take Romance | Edward H. Griffith | | |
| 1937 | Outlaws of the Prairie | Sam Nelson | First collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1938 | Call of the Rockies | Alan James | | |
| 1938 | West of Cheyenne | Sam Nelson | Second collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1938 | South of Arizona | Sam Nelson | Third collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1938 | The Colorado Trail | Sam Nelson | Fourth collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1938 | West of the Santa Fe | Sam Nelson | Fifth collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1938 | Rio Grande | Sam Nelson | Sixth collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1939 | The Thundering West | Sam Nelson | Seventh collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1939 | Texas Stampede | Sam Nelson | Eighth collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1939 | North of the Yukon | Sam Nelson | Ninth collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1939 | Spoilers of the Range | Charles C. Coleman | Second collaboration with Charles C. Coleman | |
| 1939 | Western Caravans | Sam Nelson | Tenth collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1939 | The Man from Sundown | Sam Nelson | Eleventh collaboration with Sam Nelson | |
| 1939 | The Man They Could Not Hang | Nick Grinde | First collaboration with Nick Grinde | |
| 1939 | Riders of Black River | Norman Deming | | |
| 1939 | Scandal Sheet | Nick Grinde | Second collaboration with Nick Grinde | |
| 1939 | My Son Is Guilty | Charles Barton | First collaboration with Charles Barton | |
| 1940 | Too Many Husbands | Wesley Ruggles | First collaboration with Wesley Ruggles | |
| 1940 | Arizona | Wesley Ruggles | Second collaboration with Wesley Ruggles | |
| 1940 | The Phantom Submarine | Charles Barton | Second collaboration with Charles Barton | |
| 1941 | Naval Academy | Erle C. Kenton | | |
| 1941 | Sweetheart of the Campus | Edward Dmytryk | First collaboration with Edward Dmytryk | |
| 1941 | Texas | George Marshall | | |
| 1941 | Harvard, Here I Come | Lew Landers | First collaboration with Lew Landers | |
| 1942 | Lawless Plainsmen | William Berke | | |
| 1942 | Tramp, Tramp, Tramp | Charles Barton | Third collaboration with Charles Barton | |
| 1942 | Submarine Raider | Lew Landers | Second collaboration with Lew Landers | |
| 1942 | Sabotage Squad | Lew Landers | Third collaboration with Lew Landers | |
| 1942 | You Were Never Lovelier | William A. Seiter | | |
| 1946 | The Jolson Story | Alfred E. Green | | |
| 1947 | The Lone Wolf in Mexico | D. Ross Lederman | Second collaboration with D. Ross Lederman | |
| 1947 | Mr. District Attorney | Robert B. Sinclair | | |
| 1947 | The Guilt of Janet Ames | Henry Levin | First collaboration with Henry Levin | Uncredited |
| 1948 | To the Ends of the Earth | Robert Stevenson | | |
| 1949 | The Walking Hills | John Sturges | | |
| 1949 | Jolson Sings Again | Henry Levin | Second collaboration with Henry Levin | |
| 1950 | Cargo to Capetown | Earl McEvoy | | |
| 1950 | No Sad Songs for Me | Rudolph Maté | | |
| 1950 | The Fuller Brush Girl | Lloyd Bacon | | |
| 1951 | Saturday's Hero | David Miller | First collaboration with David Miller | |
| 1951 | Ten Tall Men | Willis Goldbeck | | |
| 1951 | Death of a Salesman | László Benedek | | |
| 1952 | Thief of Damascus | Will Jason | | |
| 1952 | The Happy Time | Richard Fleischer | | |
| 1952 | The Member of the Wedding | Fred Zinnemann | First collaboration with Fred Zinnemann | |
| 1953 | Fort Ti | William Castle | First collaboration with William Castle | |
| 1953 | The 49th Man | Fred F. Sears | | |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | Second collaboration with Fred Zinnemann | |
| 1953 | Slaves of Babylon | William Castle | Second collaboration with William Castle | |
| 1954 | The Caine Mutiny | Edward Dmytryk | Second collaboration with Edward Dmytryk | |
| 1955 | The Long Gray Line | John Ford | | |
| 1955 | The Man from Laramie | Anthony Mann | | |
| 1955 | Count Three and Pray | George Sherman | First collaboration with George Sherman | |
| 1955 | Picnic | Joshua Logan | | |
| 1956 | Storm Center | Daniel Taradash | | |
| 1956 | Nightfall | Jacques Tourneur | | |
| 1957 | The Shadow on the Window | William Asher | | |
| 1957 | The Garment Jungle | Vincent Sherman | | |
| 1957 | The Hard Man | George Sherman | Second collaboration with George Sherman | |
| 1958 | Cowboy | Delmer Daves | | |
| 1958 | Me and the Colonel | Peter Glenville | | |
| 1959 | Gidget | Paul Wendkos | First collaboration with Paul Wendkos | |
| 1959 | They Came to Cordura | Robert Rossen | | |
| 1960 | Song Without End | Charles Vidor | | |
| 1960 | Midnight Lace | David Miller | Second collaboration with David Miller | Uncredited |
| 1961 | A Raisin in the Sun | Daniel Petrie | | |
| 1961 | Gidget Goes Hawaiian | Paul Wendkos | Second collaboration with Paul Wendkos | |
| 1961 | Sail a Crooked Ship | Irving Brecher | | |
| 1962 | Five Finger Exercise | Daniel Mann | | |
| 1962 | Diamond Head | Guy Green | | |
| 1963 | The Man from the Diners' Club | Frank Tashlin | | |
| 1963 | Gidget Goes to Rome | Paul Wendkos | Third collaboration with Paul Wendkos | |
| 1964 | The Young Lovers | Samuel Goldwyn Jr. | | |
| 1965 | Major Dundee | Sam Peckinpah | | |
| 1966 | Lord Love a Duck | George Axelrod | | |
| 1966 | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Bernard Girard | | |
| 1967 | Barefoot in the Park | Gene Saks | | |
| 1969 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Stanley Kramer | First collaboration with Stanley Kramer | |
| 1970 | R. P. M. | Stanley Kramer | Second collaboration with Stanley Kramer | |
| 1971 | Bless the Beasts and Children | Stanley Kramer | Third collaboration with Stanley Kramer | |

### Documentaries

Editor :
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
| 1943 | Divide and Conquer | Frank CapraAnatole Litvak | Uncredited |

### Shorts

Editor :
| Year | Film | Director |
| 1934 | In the Dog House | Arthur Ripley |
| 1935 | Restless Knights | Charles Lamont |
| 1935 | His Bridal Sweet | Alfred J. Goulding |
| 1935 | Three Little Beers | Del Lord |
| 1936 | Unrelated Relations | Del Lord |
| 1936 | Ants in the Pantry | Preston Black |
| 1936 | Movie Maniacs | Del Lord |
| 1936 | The Peppery Salt | Del Lord |
| 1936 | Disorder in the Court | Preston Black |
| 1936 | A Pain in the Pullman | Preston Black |
| 1936 | Mister Smarty | Preston Black |
| 1936 | Fibbing Fibbers | Preston Black |
| 1936 | Slippery Silks | Preston Black |
| 1957 | Horsing Around | Jules White |
| 1958 | Quiz Whizz | Jules White |

### TV series

Editor :
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America | 1 episode |