Frank Mazzola, a child actor turned film editor, has died at age 79.
He appeared in such classic movies as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause. Mazzola edited such films as Performance, The Hired Hand, Demon Seed and The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud.
Not widely known is his ill-fated attempt to complete The Other Side of the Wind to audiences more than a decade after the death of Orson Welles.
Mazzola worked on a 105-minute assembly prepared with Welles’ loyal cinematographer Gary Graver in 1998. It was shopped by Graver and film historian and Wind co-star Joseph McBride to prospective investors 16 years ago.
“When all the pieces are put in, it will work beautifully,” Mazzola told Editors’ World in May 2000. “I have a complete vision about the film.”
Mazzola died on January 13.
His survivors include four daughters and three grandchildren.
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