Mini-Biography:
Christian Nyby was born on September 1, 1913 in Los Angeles, California, USA, US. He was an American Editor, Director, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), To have and have not (1944), Christian Nyby's first movie on record is from 1944. Christian Nyby died on September 17, 1993 in Temecula, CA, USA. His last motion picture on file dates from 1967.
Biographical Notes
Begann als Schreiner bei MGM und wurde 1940 ì
Schnittmeister, u.a. von Klassikern wie "The Big Sleep", ì
"To Have and have not" und "Red River", wofür er eine ì
Oscar Nomnierung erhielt.
Nyby's Regiedebüt war 1951 der Scienci-Fiction Film "The ì
Thing". Später folgten zahlreiche Fernsehfilme wie in den ì
Serien "Perry Mason", "I Spy", "Ironside", "Adam-12", ì
"Bonanza", "The Twilight Zone" und "Gunsmoke".
Der Regisseur Christian I. Nyby II. ist sein Sohn
FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1967: First to Fight (Director), with Claude Akins, Norman Alden, James Best,
1965: I Spy (Serienhaupttitel) (Director), Directed by Earl Bellamy, Paul Wendkos, Alf Kjellin, Richard C. Sarafian, with Robert Culp, Bill Cosby, David Friedkin,
1965: Young Fury (Director), with John Agar, Merry Anders, Richard Arlen,
1952: The Big Sky (Editor), Directed by Howard Hawks, with Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt,
1951: The Thing (The Thing from Another World) (Director), Directed by Howard Hawks, with Margaret Sheridan, , Robert Cornthwaite,
1948: Red River (Editor), Directed by Howard Hawks, with John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan,
1948: Fighter Squadron (Editor), Directed by Raoul Walsh, with Tom d'Andrea, James Holden, Rock Hudson,
1947: Cheyenne (The Wyoming Kid) (Editor), Directed by Raoul Walsh, with Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Janis Paige,
1946: Cloak and Dagger (Editor), Directed by Fritz Lang, with Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda,
1946: The Big Sleep (Editor), Directed by Howard Hawks, with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, ,
1944: To have and have not (Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not) (Editor), Directed by Howard Hawks, with Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall,
Bibliography
Nachruf in Variety October 11, 1993; Lothar R. Just, Filmjahrbuch 1994, Heine Filmbibliothek; The Motion Picture Guide, 1994 Annual