About Erma Horsley
Lived 1895 – 1977 (aged 82). Erma Horsley was an American film editor.
Erma Ruth Horsley (née Dunkell; January 17, 1895 – July 9, 1977) was an American film editor and screenwriter who worked for Republic Pictures during the 1920s and 1930s.
Biography Dunkell was born in Los Angeles to Frank E. Dunkell and Anna May Rayburn. She attended Hollywood High School before marrying Fox producer Arthur Horsley in 1916. She worked as a film editor at the studios and also got a writing credit on 1928's Mystery Valley.
She later married fellow editor Robert Owen Crandall. They ran their own company, Erro Film Service, in the 1940s.
Selected filmography As editor:
I Cover the War! (1937) California Straight Ahead! (1937) Conflict (1936) Mystery Valley (1928) Lightnin' Shot (1928) The Devil's Tower (1928) The Grey Vulture (1926)
As writer:
Mystery Valley (1928)
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Who was Erma Horsley?
American film editor
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Erma Horsley was born on 17 January 1895 in Los Angeles.
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Erma Horsley died on 9 July 1977.
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Erma Horsley was a film editor.
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Erma Horsley was American.
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