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|name = Christian Nyby<br />
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|occupation = [[Film editor]] and [[Film director|director]]<br />
|yearsactive = 1943–1975<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1913|09|01}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|1993|09|17|1913|09|01}}<br />
|death_place = [[Temecula, California]], U.S.<br />
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'''Christian Nyby''' (September 1, 1913 – September 17, 1993) was an American television and film director and editor. As an editor, he had seventeen feature film credits from 1943 to 1952, including ''[[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|The Big Sleep]]'' (1946) and ''[[Red River (1948 film)|Red River]]'' (1948). From 1953–1975 he was a prolific director of episodes in many television series, including ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' and ''[[Wagon Train]]''. As a feature film director, he is likely best known for ''[[The Thing from Another World]]'' (1951).<ref name=Vosburgh>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Christian Nyby |first=Dick |authorlink=Dick Vosburgh |last=Vosburgh |work=The Independent |date=December 4, 1993 |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-christian-nyby-1465148.html }}</ref><ref name=imdb>{{IMDb name | id = 0638528}}</ref><br />
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Born in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], and of [[Denmark|Danish]] ancestry, he started his career as a [[film editor]] in the 1940s. He edited four films directed by [[Howard Hawks]] (''[[To Have and Have Not (film)|To Have and Have Not]]'' (1944), ''[[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|The Big Sleep]]'' (1946), ''[[Red River (1948 film)|Red River]]'' (1948), and ''[[The Big Sky (film)|The Big Sky]]'' (1952)).<ref>{{cite web |title=Works crediting Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks |url=http://www.imdb.com/search/title?roles=nm0638528,nm0001328&title_type=feature,tv_episode,video,tv_movie,tv_special,mini_series,documentary,game,short,unknown |publisher=The Internet Movie Database}}</ref> Nyby was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Academy Award]] for ''Red River''. He had begun his career in the carpentry division at the studios, worked his way up to editor, then received his first directing credit on Hawks' 1951 production of ''[[The Thing from Another World]]'' (or ''The Thing'' as it is more commonly known), which was an instant success.<br />
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Nyby went on to have a prolific television and movie directing career from the 1950s to the 1970s. [[Dick Vosburgh]] wrote in his obituary that "After editing Hawks's next film ''The Big Sky'' (1952), Nyby turned to television, directing [[Ann Sothern]]'s sitcom ''[[Private Secretary (TV series)|Private Secretary]]'', which ran for four years. He also directed episodes of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'', ''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]'', ''[[Lassie (1954 TV series)|Lassie]]'', ''[[Adam-12]]'', ''[[Perry Mason (TV series)|Perry Mason]]'', ''[[The Rockford Files]]'', ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'', ''[[Ironside (TV series)|Ironside]]'', and ''[[Kojak]]''. He did especially impressive work on such western series as ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[Wagon Train]]'' and ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]''."<ref name=Vosburgh /> He also directed four more feature films ''[[Hell on Devil's Island]]'', ''[[Young Fury]]'', ''[[Operation C.I.A.]]'' (the first lead role for [[Burt Reynolds]]), and ''[[First to Fight (1967 film)|First to Fight]]''.<br />
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The most influential film that Nyby directed is ''[[The Thing from Another World]]'' (1951), which continues to attract viewers and critical attention more than 50 years after its release, and which was selected in 2001 for preservation in the US [[National Film Registry]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Librarian of Congress Names 25 More Films to National Film Registry|url=http://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2001.html|work=press release|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=20 April 2012}}</ref> Nyby's credit as the director has been challenged by some critics; Howard Hawks, the film's producer, was on the set for most of the filming, and is noted as one of the greatest film directors. Nyby himself commented on the controversy in 1982:<br />
{{quote|Did Hawks direct it? That's one of the most inane and ridiculous questions I've ever heard, and people keep asking. That it was Hawks' style. Of course it was. This is a man I studied and wanted to be like. You would certainly emulate and copy the master you're sitting under, which I did. Anyway, if you're taking painting lessons from [[Rembrandt]], you don't take the brush out of the master's hands.<ref name=fuhrmann19970525 />}}<br />
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Nyby was the father of [[Christian I. Nyby II]], a prolific television director in his own right, and Kirkland Royal Nyby, who while studying law did a few TV acting roles in the early 1970s as Kirk Nyby,<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638530/ IMDb: ''Kirk Nyby''] Linked 2014-12-02</ref> before embarking on a legal career in California, finishing as Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner.<ref>[http://www.metnews.com/articles/2008/nyby121908.htm Metropolitan News, Friday, December 19, 2008: ''Court Commissioner Kirkland Nyby Sets Retirement Date''] Linked 2014-12-02</ref><br />
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Nyby died at age 80 in [[Temecula, California]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name=fuhrmann19970525>{{cite news|last=Fuhrmann|first=Henry|title=A 'Thing' to His Credit|url=http://articles.latimes.com/print/1997-05-25/entertainment/ca-62224_1_howard-hawks|accessdate=20 April 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=25 May 1997}}</ref><br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite journal |last=Gentry |first=Ric |title=Christian Nyby: An Interview |journal=[http://postscriptessays.blogspot.com/2008/04/home.html Post Script] |volume= 25 |issue=1 |date=Fall 2005 |pages=3–21 |url=http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Post-Script/143723757.html}} Transcript of a February 4, 1991 interview with Nyby by Ric Gentry.<br />
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