Danny Shick (1932-2023) was a film editor and still photographer. Tel Aviv-born Shick started out his film career as an assistant editor at Herzliya Studios [now United Studios Israel.] He spent his military service in the IDF’s Film Unit, after which he found work as an assistant editor and sound editor on Thorold Dickinson’s 1955 film Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer.
In 1960, Shick edited his first-ever feature film, Baruch Dienar’s They were Ten. Over the course of the next few decades, he went on to edit some of Israeli cinema’s most influential films including Salah Shabati (Ephraim Kishon, 1964) that won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and also earned an Oscar nomination in that category, and Gilberto Tofano’s Siege (1969) that made the official selection for the Cannes Film Festival and became the cornerstone of Israeli film’s New Sensibility movement.
In 1977 Shick edited Peter Hammond’s rare film, The Phantom Kid – an English-speaking western starring an all-children’s cast including one Jeremy Kaplan (of future rock music fame.)
Highlights of his other editing credits include: Clouds Over Israel (Ilan Eldad, 1962), A Pound a Piece (Yoram Gross, 1963), The Cellar (Natan Gross, 1964), Dreamboat (Amatsia Hiuni & Puchu, 1964), Eight in the Footstep of One [aka ‘Eight Against One’] (Menahem Golan, 1964), Trunk to Cairo (Menahem Golan, 1965), My Name is Ahmed (Avshalom Katz, 1966), Fortuna (Menahem Golan, 1966), 999 Aliza: The Policeman (Menahem Golan, 1967), Ervinka (Ephraim Kishon, 1967), Iris (David Greenberg, 1968), Azit the Paratrooper Dog [aka ‘azit hakalba hatzanhanit’] (Boaz Davidson, 1972), Fantasy on a Romantic Theme (Vitek Tracz, 1977), The End of Milton Levy (Nissim Dayan, 1981), Repeat Dive (Shimon Dotan, 1982), Dead End Street (Yaky Yosha, 1982), On a Narrow Bridge (Nissim Dayan, 1985), Crossfire [aka ‘Esh Tzolevet’] (Gideon Ganani, 1989), Under the Domim Tree (Eli Cohen, 1994), Family Secrets (Nitza Gonen, 1998), and Chronicle of Love (Tzipi Trope, 1998.)
Shick was the grandfather of comedian Irmy Shik-Blum.
