Twice Oscar-winning Hollywood editor (
Lost Horizon (1937) and
On the Waterfront (1954)) Arthur Eugene Milford began in Hollywood as a stuntman and title writer. His first work in the cutting rooms dates back to 1926 and three years later, he was signed by Columbia as full-time editor. After leaving the studio in 1940, he was appointed successively head of the film editorial departments of the Office of War Information and of the Atomic Energy Commission at Lookout Mountain. He resumed motion picture work in 1943 under contract first at RKO and, subsequently, at Republic.