Dann Cahn

Cahn was born and raised in Hollywood. His parents were Philip and Gertrude (Barsha) Cahn. Some members of the Cahn family were already in the film business at the time Danny Cahn was born. His family (his grandparents and his father, a baby at the time) had migrated from Poland and Russia to Philadelphia, before settling in New York on the lower east side of Manhattan. The Cahn family would later move to Hollywood, where his uncle Edward L. "Eddy" Cahn had managed to join the film business in 1913. Eddy Cahn worked first as a prop man and then later moved up to become one of the top film editors at Universal Studios. Of making films for the military, Cahn said, "I was an editor in the unit and two of us were sent to the Pentagon for a year and we made newsreels. We were all in for 3½ years, and most of us got a world of experience." and was elected president of the Motion Picture Editor's Guild at the beginning of 2011. ==Career highlights==

Dann Cahn started out working in a film library and then later moved up as an assistant editor on motion pictures. His first job in television came in 1949, the Lucky Strike Showtime. Most notably, Cahn worked at Desilu on the TV series, I Love Lucy. Cahn also edited The Untouchables, and The Loretta Young Show. Dann Cahn also worked at Glenn Larson Productions as head of post production. I Love Lucy was the first sitcom to shoot with three cameras and ship in 35 mm instead of kinescopes. Cahn was one of the first editors to master cutting on a film Moviola with four heads (three for picture and one for sound). Cahn's work on I Love Lucy is featured in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York, which has an exhibit including his "three-headed monster" editing machine. At Desilu Studios, Cahn mentored several I Love Lucy team members, editors Gary Freund and Ted Rich both started as his apprentices. His other apprentices included Bud Molin and a fourth, "the one I had to nurse the longest..." Cahn said, "that was Michael Kahn, ACE, and he is now the number one editor in town, doing all of Steven Spielberg's shows." Cahn would go on to work with several notable feature film directors, including Orson Welles (Fountain of Youth) and the notorious Russ Meyer (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls). Cahn would also direct at least one episode of the classic TV series, Leave It to Beaver and would also produce and/or direct several other films or television shows. ==Personal life==

In 1953, Cahn married former pro golfer Judy Cahn (1929–2010). They had two children. His son Daniel T. Cahn is also an editor. Cahn's hobby was collecting exotic birds. ==Death==

Cahn died of natural causes at his West Los Angeles home on November 21, 2012, at the age of 89. His remains were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. ==Selected filmography==

• ''I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special'' (2001) (TV) (consultant) • Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991) (TV) • Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989) (TV) • Bates Motel (1987) (TV) • My Sister Sam (1986) TV series • Tough Enough (1983) • Remington Steele (1982) TV series • The Fall Guy (1981) TV series • The Octagon (1980) • Man from Atlantis (1977) TV series • Shaft TV series (associate producer) (3 episodes, 1974) • Police Woman (1974–1975) TV series • The Most Deadly Game (1970) TV series • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) • The Beverly Hillbillies (28 episodes, 1963–1964) • Leave It to Beaver (1 episode, 1961) Director • The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (1959) • Frances Langford Presents (1959) TV series (writer) • Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1 episode, 1959) Director • The Scarface Mob (1959) (TV) (second unit director) • The Fountain of Youth (1958) (TV) (editorial supervisor) • The Californians (1957) TV series (editorial supervisor) • I Love Lucy (editorial supervisor) (106 episodes, 1952–1957) • Cavalcade of America (2 episodes, 1956–1957) • Make Room for Daddy (1953) TV series • I Love Lucy film (1953) • I Love Lucy (33 episodes, 1951–1952) • Our Miss Brooks (1952) TV series • Airborne Lifeboat (1945) ==References==