Here's another of the 72 million reasons why I love the Internet. A few hours ago, I posted the piece below about Martin Bolger, a film editor who lived down the block from us when I was a kid. Bill Mullins just sent me a copy of an obit from the Los Angeles Times for January 12, 1966. It says, in part…
Funeral services for Martin W. Bolger, 72, one of Hollywood's first film editors, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park Chapel.
Mr. Bolger died Monday at the 20th Century-Fox Western Ave. studio, where he was supervisor of the film negative editing department.
In the film industry 50 years, he edited the Keystone Kops comedies for Mack Sennett. He later was associated with Hal Roach and Warner Bros. and for many years with 20th Century-Fox.
1966 sounds about right to me. You'll see I said I met him when I was about 12 or 13 (which would have been 1964 or 1965) and that he passed away a few years later. I don't recall him mentioning work for Sennett, but he might have. I'm sorry I didn't take along a tape recorder for our conversation…or even really know what to ask the man. There was probably a lot of movie history I could have preserved there.