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Mark Robson (4 December 1913 – 20 June 1978) was a Canadian-born film director, producer and editor. Robson began his 45-year career in Hollywood as a film editor. He later began working as a director and producer. He directed thirty-four films during his career including ''The Bridges at Toko-Ri'' (1955), ''Peyton Place'' (1957), for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, ''Von Ryan's Express'' (1965) and ''Valley of the Dolls'' (1967). Robson died of a heart attack after shooting his final film, ''Avalanche Express'', in 1978. The film was released a year after his death. ==Early life and career== Born in Montreal, Quebec, he attended Roslyn High School and Westmount High School in Montreal. He later studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and Pacific Coast University School of Law. Robson then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor. In 1940 he worked as an assistant to Robert Wise on the editing of ''Citizen Kane'' in addition to several other films. Both he and Wise benefited tremendously from producer and screenwriter Val Lewton, who promoted Robson from film editor to production assistant and later to director. In 1943, at the insistence of Lewton, Robson assisted Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur in a series of low-budget horror films produced by Val Lewton, including ''Cat People'' and ''I Walked with a Zombie''. Later, Lewton was instrumental in promoting Robson to the director's chair for films such as ''The Seventh Victim'' (1943), Robson's first directing credit and the troubled ''Isle of the Dead'' (1945). His success at RKO lead to work on major film projects and in 1949 he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for his work on the film noir drama ''Champion''. That same year, he directed the popular romance ''My Foolish Heart'' and ''Home of the Brave'', one of the first films to deal with the issue of racism. Robson briefly brought back his old mentor Val Lewton with fellow protégé Robert Wise in a partnership for film and television production, only to drop the ailing Lewton without explanation a few months later. Robson was nominated by the DGA again for the war drama ''The Bridges at Toko-Ri'' (1955), starring William Holden and Grace Kelly. In 1958, Robson was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for the major box office success ''Peyton Place'' and again the following year for directing Ingrid Bergman in ''The Inn of the Sixth Happiness''. For these films he also received his third and fourth Directors Guild of America nominations. Robson also produced a number of films which he also directed including ''Von Ryan's Express'' in 1965. He directed 1967's ''Valley of the Dolls'', a film panned by the critics but a success at the box office. In 1974 he directed ''Earthquake'', the film that introduced "Sensurround". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Robson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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