Verna Fields

Verna Fields

American film editor and entertainment industry executive (1918-1982)

Verna Fields was an American film editor, film and television sound editor, educator, and entertainment industry executive. In the first phase of her career, from 1954 through to about 1970, Fields mostly worked on smaller projects that gained little recognition. She was the sound editor for several television shows in the 1950s. She worked on independent films including The Savage Eye (1959), on government-supported documentaries of the 1960s, and on some minor studio films such as Peter Bogdanovich's first film, Targets (1968). For several years in the late 1960s, she was a film instructor at the University of Southern California. Her one major studio film, El Cid (1961), led to her only industry recognition in this phase of her career, which was the 1962 Golden Reel award for sound editing.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 3 films (1960–1975) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field.

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1975 Jaws Universal Pictures 124 min Color sound
1974 The Sugarland Express Universal Pictures 110 min Color sound
1960 Studs Lonigan. Longridge Enterprises Inc. 95 min 35mm B&W sound