Jodie Copelan

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Jodie Copelan
Born
Joseph B. Caplan

January 6, 1914
Los Angeles, California, USA
DiedNovember 10, 1977 (aged 63)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation(s)Film editor, director
SpouseLillian Schleifer

Jodie Copelan (born Joseph Caplan and sometimes credited as Jodie Caplan) was an American film editor who worked on dozens of B movies and TV shows from the late 1940s through the 1970s.

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Biography

Beginnings

Jodie was born in Los Angeles, California, to Julius Caplan and Rosie Siegel. [1] He started going by Jodie Copelan professionally early on in his career.

Career

He began working as an assistant editor sometime around the early 1930s, and got his first credit as an editor on 1947's The Guilty . He spent the next 30 years editing and directing films and TV episodes; his sole directorial credit on a feature film came in 1958 with the release of Ambush at Cimarron Pass , a Western produced by Robert L. Lippert, who Copelan edited many films for. The film was released by 20th Century Fox featuring a young Clint Eastwood in a supporting role. [2] [3]

Personal life

He married Lillian Schleifer in 1949. Jodie was a lifelong Dodgers fan who spent his later years tracking prospects from the farm league. [4] "If I had my life to live over again, it would be in baseball," he told a reporter for The Los Angeles Times in 1973. [4]

Selected filmography

As editor:

As director:

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References

  1. ↑ "4 Feb 1974, 43 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  2. ↑ "3 Aug 1958, Page 44 - The Terre Haute Tribune at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  3. ↑ Eliot, Marc (2010). American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood. Three Rivers Press. ISBN   9780307336897.
  4. 1 2 "24 May 1973, 59 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  5. ↑ Lisanti, Thomas (2015-05-07). Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969. McFarland. ISBN   9781476601427.
  6. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1951.
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