Arthur Schneider is a television pioneer and a four-time Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 winning television editor, with a career spanning from 1951 to 1988.

Arthur Schneider grew up in New York, and attended Brighton High School in Brighton, Monroe County, New York

Brighton, Monroe County, New York

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 in Lexington, Missouri

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. In 1948, he entered the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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, where he majored in Cinema. His television career began in 1951 at the NBC

NBC

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 studios in Hollywood where he spent more than 17 years as a motion picture film and videotape editor.

Schneider received seven Emmy nominations and won the award four times. His first win was in 1966 for a Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews

Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...

 special on NBC. He won his second in 1968 for Laugh-In on NBC. His third was in 1973 for another Julie Andrews show on ABC, and in 1984, he won his fourth for editing an episode of the ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special

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series. He is a life member of the honorary American Cinema Editors

American Cinema Editors

Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...

 Society (A.C.E.) and was nominated for an "Eddie" award for editing another Julie Andrews Special in 1973. His list of more than 1,100 film and tape screen credits include the Bob Hope

Bob Hope

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 Comedy Specials, the Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas

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 specials, the Laugh-In series, the Sonny and Cher series, the Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

 specials, and the New Mickey Mouse Club series for Walt Disney

Walt Disney

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He pioneered the "jump cut" -- his unique editing style mastered on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In in which a sudden cut from one shot to another is made without a fade-out. The term eventually became his nickname and the title of his autobiography. In 1999, Schneider was given the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award

American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award

The American Cinema Editors gives one or more Career Achievement Awards each year. The first awards were given in 1987; the winners have been:*2011: Michael Kahn and Michael Brown*2010: Paul LaMastra and Neil Travis*2009: Sidney Katz and Arthur Schmidt...

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