CURRIER, RICHARD (Richard Carlton Currier), Currier began editing films in 1911 at the Selig studios in Edendale, California. He worked with writer-director Herbert Brenon, edited comedies starring Gale Henry, Milburn Morante, and Billy Franey, and also worked on serials starring Ruth Roland. He was at the Roach studios from about 1921, hired by the head of the editorial department, Thomas J. Crizer. When Crizer left the Roach lot in 1925, Currier was promoted to his spot, and received credit for editing virtually every picture produced by the studio through mid-1933, although in later years he freely admitted that he was more of a supervisor. He worked at Paramount in the ’30s, often on W.C. Fields and Burns and Allen films. Currier returned briefly to the Roach lot in the early ’40s and later worked for Monogram and edited TV shows, among them The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok and The Whistler. He ran his own editorial service in Hollywood before retiring. Died December 14, 1984, Lake Forest, California, age 92; after a series of strokes. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Carlton "Dick" Currier (August 26, 1892 – December 14, 1984) was an American film editor known principally for his work at Hal Roach Studios. Currier was born in Denver, Colorado. From 1920 to 1932 he was the head of the editing department at Hal Roach Studios. His contract ensured that his name appeared as editor on nearly every Hal Roach film released while he was head of the department, though the actual work was often done by other people. Most of the Laurel and Hardy films released by the company during this period were actually edited by Bert Jordan.[citation needed] After his work at Roach, Currier worked at Paramount Pictures and Monogram Pictures. He worked at Hal Roach Studios again for a short while before starting his own editing company. He died in Lake Forest, California. Currier had been elected to membership in American Cinema Editors.
Pack Up Your Troubles
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People Will Talk
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A Fig Leaf for Eve
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Nearly Eighteen
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Boxing Gloves
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Lazy Days
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Railroadin'
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Small Talk
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Spook Busters
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Limousine Love
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Melody Parade
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Too Much Harmony
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Should Tall Men Marry?
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Her First Flame
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What Price Taxi
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Came the Dawn
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Kick
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Boys Will Be Joys
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Mama Loves Papa
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Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
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Red Noses
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
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Below Zero
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Leaping Love
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Bowery Bombshell
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Should Sailors Marry?
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Along Came Auntie
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One Good Turn
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The Chimp
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Another Fine Mess
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The Music Box
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Should Men Walk Home?
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We Faw Down
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Call of the Cuckoo
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Bacon Grabbers
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What's the World Coming To?
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Seeing the World
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The Night Life
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Our Wife
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Scram!
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Unaccustomed as We Are
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Should Husbands Be Watched?
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Innocent Husbands
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The Caretaker's Daughter
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His Wooden Wedding
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Tell 'Em Nothing
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Be Your Age
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The Glorious Fourth
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The Way of All Pants
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Looser Than Loose
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The Panic Is On
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Hasty Marriage
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Wrong Again
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Putting Pants on Philip
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Their First Mistake
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Early to Bed
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Blotto
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Chickens Come Home
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Come Clean
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Brats
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Helpmates
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Love 'Em and Weep
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Wandering Papas
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Towed in a Hole
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Cattle Queen
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Border Outlaws
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Revenge of the Zombies
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Bouncing Babies
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Dogs Is Dogs
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Any Old Port!
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The Pip from Pittsburg
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Dollar Dizzy
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There's a Girl in My Heart
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Show Business
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Men O' War
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The Second Hundred Years
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Raggedy Rose
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School Begins
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Be Big!
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Mr. Bride
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The Tabasco Kid
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Thundering Tenors
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Bromo and Juliet
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Crazy Like a Fox
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Woman Trap
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The Fourth Alarm
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Sunbonnet Sue
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Bad Boy
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Tales of Robin Hood
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Moan & Groan, Inc.
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Shivering Shakespeare
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The First Seven Years
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When the Wind Blows
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Women in Bondage
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Below the Deadline
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The Lawton Story
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Girl Without a Room
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Miss Polly
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Hay Foot
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Flying with Music
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Fall In
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Taxi, Mister
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Yanks Ahoy
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Tanks a Million
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The McGuerins from Brooklyn
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Teacher's Pet
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Radiomanía
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Night of Goblins
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Pardon Us
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Haunted at Midnight
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Silver Skates
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Bear Shooters
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The Battle of the Century
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The Desert's Toll
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County Hospital
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China's Little Devils
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Divorce
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Mom and Dad
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Till We Meet Again
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School's Out
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St. Louis Blues
(Production Supervisor)
Berth Marks
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Hog Wild
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Many Happy Returns
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King of the Zombies
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You're Telling Me
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Big Business
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Should Married Men Go Home?
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The Finishing Touch
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Wild Weed
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Free Eats
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Doctor's Orders
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Thundering Toupees
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General Electric Theater
(Supervising Editor)
Biff Baker U.S.A.
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