Editing Don Siegel (section)

==Career==
Siegel found work in the [[Warner Bros.]] film library after meeting producer [[Hal Wallis]],<ref name="Munn75"/> and later rose to head of the montage department, where he directed thousands of [[montage sequence|montages]], including the opening montage for ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''. In 1945, two shorts he directed, ''[[Star in the Night]]'' and ''[[Hitler Lives]]'', won [[Academy Award]]s, which launched his career as a feature director.

Siegel directed whatever material came his way, often transcending the limitations of budget and script to produce interesting and adept works. He made the original ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' (1956), described by ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2014 as a "fatalistic masterpiece" and "a touchstone for the sci-fi genre" which spawned three remakes.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/27/invasion-of-the-bodysnatchers-1956 | title= Invasion Of The Body Snatchers: Don Siegel's fatalistic masterpiece | work=[[The Guardian]] | first=John | last=Patterson | date=27 October 2014 | access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref> For television, he directed two episodes of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'', "[[Uncle Simon]]" (1963) and "[[The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross]]" (1964), and was the producer of ''[[The Legend of Jesse James (TV series)|The Legend of Jesse James]]'' (1965).<ref>{{cite book | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=TrIspiOaqboC&q=don+siegel+legend+of+jesse+james&pg=PA75 | title= Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders | author= Alvin H. Marill | date= June 2011 | publisher= Scarecrow Press | isbn= 9780810881334 | access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref> He worked with [[Eli Wallach]] in ''[[The Lineup (film)|The Lineup]]'', [[Elvis Presley]] and [[Dolores del Río]] in ''[[Flaming Star]]'' (1960), with [[Steve McQueen (actor)|Steve McQueen]] in ''[[Hell Is for Heroes (film)|Hell Is for Heroes]]'', and [[Lee Marvin]] in the influential ''[[The Killers (1964 film)|The Killers]]'' (1964) before directing five of Eastwood's films that were commercially successful in addition to being well received by critics. These included the action films ''[[Coogan's Bluff (film)|Coogan's Bluff]]'' and ''[[Dirty Harry]]'', the [[Albert Maltz]]-scripted Western ''[[Two Mules for Sister Sara]]'', the [[American Civil War]] melodrama ''[[The Beguiled (1971 film)|The Beguiled]]'', and the prison-break picture ''[[Escape from Alcatraz (film)|Escape from Alcatraz]]''. He was a considerable influence on Eastwood's own career as a director, and Eastwood's film ''[[Unforgiven]]'' is dedicated "for Don and [[Sergio Leone|Sergio]]".

Siegel had a long collaboration with composer [[Lalo Schifrin]], who scored five of his films: ''Coogan's Bluff'', ''The Beguiled'', ''Dirty Harry'', ''[[Charley Varrick]]'', and ''[[Telefon (film)|Telefon]]''. Schifrin composed and recorded what would have been his sixth score for Siegel on ''[[Jinxed!]]'' (1982), but it was rejected by the studio despite Siegel's objections. This conflict was one of several fights Siegel had on his last film.<ref>''Reported by the [[Los Angeles Times]] in 1982.''</ref>

Siegel was also important to the career of director [[Sam Peckinpah]]. In 1954, Peckinpah was hired as a dialogue coach for ''[[Riot in Cell Block 11]]''. His job entailed acting as an assistant to the director, Siegel. The film was shot on location at [[Folsom Prison]]. Siegel's location work and his use of actual prisoners as extras in the film made a lasting impression on Peckinpah. He worked as a dialogue coach on four additional Siegel films: ''[[Private Hell 36]]'' (1954), ''[[An Annapolis Story]]'' (1955), ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956), and ''[[Crime in the Streets]]'' (1956).<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Weddle|author-link= David Weddle| title=If They Move...Kill 'Em!| publisher=Grove Press |year = 1994|pages=116–119 | isbn= 0-8021-3776-8}}</ref> Twenty-five years later, Peckinpah was all but banished from the industry due to his troubled film productions. Siegel gave the director a chance to return to filmmaking. He asked Peckinpah if he would be interested in directing 12 days of [[second unit]] on Siegel's ''Jinxed!'' film. Peckinpah immediately accepted, and his earnest collaboration with his longtime friend was noted within the industry. While Peckinpah's work was uncredited, it led to his hiring as the director of his final film ''[[The Osterman Weekend (film)|The Osterman Weekend]]'' (1983).<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Weddle|author-link= David Weddle| title=If They Move...Kill 'Em!| publisher=Grove Press |year = 1994|pages=534–535 | isbn= 0-8021-3776-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=''Jinxed!'' |work=imdb.com |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084173/trivia |access-date=March 6, 2012}}</ref>