Biography
Harold Kress became an editor by the late '30s, and cut numerous films into the mid '70s. An Academy Award-winner for his cutting of the extravaganzas
How the West Was Won and
The Towering Inferno, Kress also did notable work for directors
King Vidor (
Comrade X),
William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver),
Vincente Minnelli (
Cabin in the Sky,
The Cobweb,
Home from the Hill), and
George Stevens (
The Greatest Story Ever Told). Sticking with editing, Kress started directing in the early '40s with the documentaries Wardcare of Psychotic Patients and Purity Squad. He also helmed a trio of genre films in the early '50s,
No Questions Asked,
The Painted Hills, and
Apache War Smoke, and was second-unit director on the 1970 historical epic
Cromwell. ~ All Movie Guide