Academy Award-winning film editor, whose Hollywood career spanned more than four decades. He won his first Oscar® for his work on the 1949 prizefighting classic CHAMPION starring Kirk Douglas. He shared another golden statuette with Elmo Williams for editing the 1952 Western epic HIGH NOON. Among his other notable accomplishments were sharing an American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 1997 with film editor Fred Berger and a nomination for an ACE Eddie Award for the TV series "High Chaparral" in 1968. Gerstad, who moved to Hollywood with his father, began his career in 1929, working for the Hal Roach Studios laboratory, the Warner Bros. lab and Republic Pictures. He worked extensively with director Edward Dmytryk when he began editing feature films in the late 1940s. Among his films with the director were RKO's 1947 examination of bigotry, CROSSFIRE, starring Robert Young and Robert Mitchum. Gerstad worked with another influential director and producer, Stanley Kramer, at Columbia Pictures on such features as HOME OF THE BRAVE in 1949; CYRANO DE BERGERAC in 1950; and DEATH OF A SALESMAN in 1951. He also worked extensively on the small screen, including the TV series "The Adventures of Superman," "Highway Patrol" and "Ben Casey." From the mid-1960s until his retirement in the mid-1970s, Gerstad worked for Bing Crosby Productions, Fox and John Wayne's Batjac Productions.  Film Editing 1949: CHAMPION  Film Editing 1952: HIGH NOON (w. Elmo Williams) 2 nominations, 2 Awards