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Samuel Fields (Samuel Finkelstein, January 17, 1916 – July 15, 1954) was an American film editor.[2] He worked in the film industry since 1937[1] and became a realtor during the 1940s.[1] He eventually worked as a film editor from 1951 until his death in 1954. He was 38 years old.[1]

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He was married to assistant sound editor Verna Fields in May 1946,[3] after meeting her through director Fritz Lang while working on the film The Woman in the Window.[1][4] After Fields' death, Verna would become a film editor for many films, most notably Jaws.[5] His father-in-law was screenwriter Sam Hellman.[6] His older brother was Jackie Fields, who was a professional boxer.[1][7]

In 1954, he died of a heart attack at the age of 38.[1][8] He was in Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California at the time of his death, and lived in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California.[9] His funeral service was held at Pierce Brothers Van Nuys on July 18, 1954.[10]

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Sam Fields was an American film editor known for his work on low-budget Western and action films in the early 1950s. Born in Illinois on January 17, 1916, he began receiving editing credits around 1951 and contributed to numerous B-movies produced by studios such as Allied Artists, often in the Western genre. His notable credits include The Human Jungle (1954), Two Guns and a Badge (1954), Jungle Gents (1954), The Desperado (1954), and Bitter Creek (1954), among others. Fields was married to Verna Fields, who later became a prominent film editor in her own right, from May 1946 until his death. He died of a heart attack on July 16, 1954, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 38.

Early life

Family background

Sam Fields was born on January 17, 1916, in Illinois, USA. He was professionally known as Sam Fields or Sammy Fields. His older brother was the professional boxer Jackie Fields. His father-in-law was the screenwriter Sam Hellman. He later married Verna Hellman, the daughter of Sam Hellman.

Early involvement in the film industry

Sam Fields began his involvement in the film industry as an assistant editor during the 1940s, particularly amid World War II. While serving in that capacity on Fritz Lang's film noir The Woman in the Window (1944), he met Verna Hellman, who visited the studio frequently after their introduction and was subsequently hired by Lang as an apprentice sound editor on the same production. Fields received no editing credit for The Woman in the Window. No other film credits are documented for him during the late 1930s or 1940s, and his credited work as a film editor began in 1951.

Career as a film editor

Transition to editing and key credits

Sam Fields began receiving on-screen credits as a film editor in 1951, marking his transition to this specialized role following earlier involvement in the film industry. His work during this period focused primarily on low-budget Westerns and action-oriented features produced by independent studios such as Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists. Active as an editor from 1951 until his death in 1954, Fields accumulated 18 credits under name variations including Sam Fields, Sammy Fields, and Samuel Fields. Representative examples of his editing include the Western Whistling Hills (1951) and the crime drama The Human Jungle (1954). This brief phase constituted the entirety of his credited editing career.

Notable works

Sam Fields is best known for his work as a film editor on low-budget genre films during the early 1950s, with a primary focus on Westerns produced by studios such as Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists. He is most frequently recognized for editing The Human Jungle (1954), Whistling Hills (1951), and Lawless Cowboys (1951), titles consistently highlighted in industry databases as his standout credits. Other notable works include Jungle Gents (1954), The Desperado (1954), Texas Bad Man (1953), and Vigilante Terror (1953), all representative of the modest B-movie Westerns and adventure pictures that defined his brief career. These films exemplify the economical genre output of the era, in which Fields specialized before his death in 1954.

Personal life

Marriage to Verna Fields

Sam Fields married Verna Hellman in 1946, after meeting her during World War II in an editing room on a Fritz Lang film, where a friend working as an assistant editor invited Verna to assist. Verna later reflected on the encounter by saying, “I don’t know whether I fell in love with editing or the guy in the editing room,” referring to Sam, whom she subsequently married while also learning the craft of film editing from the experience. The couple had two sons, one of whom, Richard (Rick) Fields, later followed in his parents' footsteps as a film editor. Verna was the daughter of screenwriter Sam Hellman, making him Sam Fields' father-in-law. Their marriage lasted until Sam's death in 1954.

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