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Art Seid served as film editor and post production supervisor during I Spy's third season, and was set to be co-producer (along with Ernest Frankel), had the series run a fourth season.
Growing up in a Hollywood family, with his father head of the film labs at Columbia Studios, Art Seid was destined for the business, and began his career there as an apprentice editor, working on many films, including the classic “Lost Horizon.”
After military service in England, he returned to Columbia, to work as editor on both feature films and television. In the latter sphere, he was one of the pioneers of editing the three-camera shows.
Moving over to 20th Century Fox, Art Seid became first editor, then later (with Arthur Marks), producer of the Perry Mason series. Following its nine-year run, he came to “I Spy.”
He also worked on a number of television projects with Aaron Spelling, and salong with Ernest Frankel, co-produced a second incarnation of Perry Mason. From that time on, the pair worked together on numerous shows and films, with Art Seid serving as executive in charge of post production.
In Ernest Frankel's words, he was “altogether a great human being, a championship imbiber, and perfect friend.”
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Earle Hagen, composer of the music from “I Spy” has now published his autobiography
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