11:03 AM PST 12/29/2017 by Mike Barnes
The 1961 classic 'West Side Story' won 10 Oscars, the most ever for a musical.
He also worked on features including 'Suddenly, Last Summer, 'Hell in the Pacific' and 'Jeremiah Johnson.'
Film editor Thomas Stanford, who won an Academy Award for his work on West Side Story, died Saturday, his family reported. He was 93.
Stanford collaborated with director Sydney Pollack on three films - The Slender Thread (1965), Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and The Yakuza (1974) - and with helmer Mark Rydell on two: The Fox (1967) and The Reivers (1969).
Born in Germany and educated in Switzerland and England, Stanford received his first editor credit on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).
He later worked on movies including In the Cool of the Day (1963), Emil and the Detectives (1964), The Truth About Spring (1965), Don't Make Waves (1967), Hell in the Pacific (1968), The Steagle (1971), The Onion Field (1979), The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) and Split Decisions (1988).
Presenters Angie Dickinson and Rod Taylor announced Stanford's Oscar triumph at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in April 1962.