Christian Nyby

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Christian Nyby (September 1, 1913 – September 17, 1993) was an American television and film producer and editor.

He had seventeen feature film credits from 1943 to 1952, including The Big Sleep (1946) and Red River (1948).

He appeared in numerous television series, including Gunsmoke and Wagon Train, from 1953 to 1977.

He is perhaps best known for his film director, The Thing from Another World (1951). Born in Los Angeles, California, and of Danish ancestry, he began his career as a film editor in the 1940s.

He edited four films directed by Howard Hawks (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Big Sleep (1948), and The Big Sky (1952).

Nyby was nominated for the Academy Award for Red River.

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Career

He began working as a film editor in Los Angeles, California, and was of Danish ancestry. Howard Hawks edited four films (To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1948), and The Big Sky (1952)). Nyby was nominated for the Academy Award for Red River. He began his career in the carpentry division, worked his way up to editor, and then received his first directing credit on Hawks' 1951 production of The Thing from Another World (or The Thing as it is more popularly known).

Nyby went on to have a fruitful television and film directing career from the 1950s to the 1970s. "In his obituary, Dick Vosburgh wrote, "After editing Hawks' next film The Big Sky (1952), Nyby converted to television, directing Ann Sothern's sitcom Private Secretary, which lasted for four years." He has produced episodes of The Twilight Zone, I Spy, Lassie, Gomer Pyle, USMC, Adam-12, Perry Mason, The Rockford Files, Ironside, and Kojak. He made an excellent debut on such western films as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Whispering Smith, and Rawhide." Hell on Devil's Island, Young Fury, Operation C.I.A. He also produced four other feature films Hell on Devil's Island, Young Fury, and Operation C.I.A. Burt Reynolds' first lead role) and First to Fight.

The Thing from Another World (1951), Nyby's most influential film, continues to attract viewers and critical interest more than 70 years since its debut in 2001, and was chosen in 2001 for preservation in the US National Film Registry. Any commentators have questioned Nyby's credibility as the director; the film's producer, Howard Hawks, was on the set for the majority of the shoots and has been dubbed one of the finest film directors. Nyby himself weighed in on the 1982 controversy:

Nyby, the father of Christian I. Nyby II, a prolific television director in his own right, and Kirkland Royal Nyby, who spent time in the 1970s as Kirk Nyby, before embarking on a California court career as Los Angeles's superior court commissioner.

Nyby died in Temecula, California, at the age of 80.

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