title: Earl Turner (film editor)
text: # Earl Turner (film editor)
  
  Earl Carver Turner (27 March 1884 – 6 November 1971) was a film editor of the Frank Buck serial Jungle Menace.
  
  ## Early years
  
  Earl Turner was born in Nebraska and was the son of James R Turner, a telegraph operator, and Mary Elizabeth Stanfield. Earl grew up and worked on a farm in Indiana.
  
  ## Career
  
  During World War I, Turner worked as a film editor for Triangle Film Corporation. Turner was film editor of The Phantom Empire, Batman and Robin, Batman (1943), East Side Kids and many other movies.
  
  ## Work with Frank Buck
  
  In 1937, Turner was a film editor of the Frank Buck serial Jungle Menace.
  
  ## Later life
  
  Turner died aged 87 in Glendale, California.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  * The Range Riders (1927)
  * His Last Bullet (1928)
  * The Saddle King (1929)
  