Jack Murray is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL).Murray played 172 games from 1935 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1949, as either a ruckman or a defender, for the Swan Districts Football Club. "Had his career not been shortened by the war, he would almost certainly have been the Swans’ first ever 200 game footballer."He made his interstate debut at the 1937 Perth carnival. against South Australia. In the period prior to World War Two, he played in 8 of Western Australia’s 9 matches, and after the war made a 9th appearance.Murray won the fairest and best award at Swan Districts Football Club in 1939 and 1947 and was selected in the Swan Districts Team of the Century in the back pocket.
Hollywood editor who plied his trade at Fox (1929-38) and then worked primarily for John Ford/Argosy between 1947 and 1961. All up, Murray cut fifteen of the director's films.
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Wept when he began editing "The Quiet Man". He said that Ford was such a master of his craft that the film required nothing from him as an editor other than sticking the bits of film together. He said Ford had cut the film in the camera - not a frame was wasted or needed to be removed.