Biggs, Douglas

Walter Douglass Biggs was born in Missouri in 1903, the eldest child of Walter and Lucile Biggs. By 1924, the family was living in Los Angeles, where Douglas found work as a film editor, working with director Lewis Milestone. In 1927, Biggs was credited as editor on his first film, Two Arabian Knights, and continued to serve as editor or editorial advisor for Howard Hughes and the Caddo Company through 1932. He later worked for the MGM and RKO studios, editing twenty-two films before his death in 1968.

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U.S. Census, 1910. 13th Census of the United States, 1910-Population, Polk, Iowa. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31111_4328314-00242

U.S. Census, 1930. 15th Census of the United States, 1930, Population Schedule, Los Angeles, California. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6224/images/4660343_00452

"Douglass Biggs." The Internet Movie Database. IMDb.com, Inc, 2021. Web. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0081841/