Conrad Albinus Nervig was an American film editor with 81 film credits.

He started work in 1922 at Goldwyn Studios, and stayed with this firm after its merger to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

 (MGM) in 1924. He spent essentially his entire career at MGM, retiring in 1954.

Nervig was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Film Editing for the film Eskimo

Eskimo (film)

Eskimo was a 1933 film directed by W.S. Van Dyke. It was the first major studio film made in Alaska, and starred Ray Mala, a half-Inupiat actor, and was one of the first dramatic films to use a nearly all-native cast. In 1934, it received the first Academy Award for Best Film Editing, awarded to...

 (1934). He won a second "Oscar" (shared with Ralph E. Winters

Ralph E. Winters

Ralph E. Winters , born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr...

) for the film King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)

King Solomon's Mines is a 1950 adventure film loosely based on the 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. It was adapted by Helen Deutsch, directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

 (1950). He was also nominated for his work on A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)

A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, Donald Woods and Elizabeth Allan. The supporting players include Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, and Edna Mae Oliver. It was directed by Jack...

 (1935).

Filmography

• Winners of the Wilderness
  Winners of the Wilderness
  Winners of the Wilderness is a MGM silent film, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford. In this costume drama, set during the French-Indian War, Rene Contrecouer , the daughter of a French general falls for a soldier of fortune...
  
   (1927)
• Rookies (1927)
• The Fair Co-Ed
  The Fair Co-Ed
  The Fair Co-Ed is a 1927 silent film comedy starring Marion Davies and released through MGM. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst, through Cosmopolitan Procuctions and directed by Sam Wood. This film is based on a 1909 play/musical comedy by George Ade which had starred a young Elsie...
  
   (1927)
• The Divine Woman
  The Divine Woman
  The Divine Woman is an American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Garbo's fifth Hollywood film. Only a single nine-minute reel is currently known to exist of this otherwise lost film...
  
   (1928)
• The Actress
  The Actress (1928 film)
  The Actress is a 1928 silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin and starred Norma Shearer....
  
   (1928)
• The Masks of the Devil (1928)
• The Wind
  The Wind
  The Wind is a 1928 American dramatic silent film directed by Victor Sjöström. The movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the novel The Wind written by Dorothy Scarborough. It features Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, and others...
  
   (1928)
• Wild Orchids
  Wild Orchids (1929 film)
  Wild Orchids is a 1929 drama film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone and Nils Asther. Only these three stars received cast credit....
  
   (1929)
• The Idle Rich (1929)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
  The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929 film)
  The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Sidney Franklin. The screenplay by Hanns Kräly is based on the 1925 play of the same name by Frederick Lonsdale...
  
   (1929)
• Devil-May-Care
  Devil-May-Care
  Devil-May-Care is a sound American musical film with Technicolor sequences released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on 27 December 1929...
  
   (1929)
• Die Sehnsucht Jeder Frau (1930)
• A Lady to Love (1930)
• Call of the Flesh
  Call of the Flesh
  Call of the Flesh is an American musical film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, and Renée Adorée...
  
   (1930)
• Passion Flower (1930)
• Le procès de Mary Dugan (1931)
• Buster se marie (1931)
• Inspiration
  Inspiration (1931 film)
  Inspiration is a 1931 English language film adapted from the Alphonse Daudet short novel Sappho . It was adapted by Gene Markey, directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Irving Thalberg. The cinematography was by William H...
  
   (1931)
• Son of India (1931)
• The Guardsman
  The Guardsman
  The Guardsman is a 1931 film based on the play Testőr by Ferenc Molnár. It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts...
  
   (1931)
• Private Lives
  Private Lives (film)
  Private Lives is a 1931 American comedy film directed by Sidney Franklin. The screenplay by Hanns Kräly and Richard Schayer is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Noël Coward.-Plot synopsis:...
  
   (1931)
• Letty Lynton
  Letty Lynton
  Letty Lynton is a 1932 MGM drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Nils Asther. The film was directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. Crawford plays the title character, in a tale of love and blackmail.The film has...
  
   (1932)
• Downstairs
  Downstairs (film)
  Downstairs is a 1932 dramatic film. It stars John Gilbert as a charming but self-serving chauffeur who wreaks havoc on his new employer's household, romancing and fleecing the women on the staff, and blackmailing the employer's wife. Gilbert had written the story in 1928 for a proposed silent film...
  
   (1932)
• Kongo (1932)
• The Women in His Life
  The Women in His Life
  -Cast:* Otto Kruger as Kent 'Barry' Barringer* Una Merkel as Miss 'Simmy' Simmons* Ben Lyon as Roger McKane* Isabel Jewell as Catherine 'Cathy' Watson* Roscoe Karns as Lester* Irene Hervey as Doris Worthing* C. Henry Gordon as Tony Perez...
  
   (1933)
• Eskimo
  Eskimo (film)
  Eskimo was a 1933 film directed by W.S. Van Dyke. It was the first major studio film made in Alaska, and starred Ray Mala, a half-Inupiat actor, and was one of the first dramatic films to use a nearly all-native cast. In 1934, it received the first Academy Award for Best Film Editing, awarded to...
  
   (1934)
• Paris Interlude (1934)
• The Night Is Young (1935)
• The Casino Murder Case
  The Casino Murder Case
  The Casino Murder Case is a 1934 novel written by S. S. Van Dine in the series about fictional detective Philo Vance. In this outing, a murder investigation is connected with a private casino on New York's upper west side, and the wealthy and unorthodox family that operates it...
  
   (1935)
• Murder in the Fleet (1935)
• Calm Yourself (1935)
• A Tale of Two Cities
  A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
  A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, Donald Woods and Elizabeth Allan. The supporting players include Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, and Edna Mae Oliver. It was directed by Jack...
  
   (1935)
• Exclusive Story (1936)
• Absolute Quiet (1936)
• Women Are Trouble (1936)
• His Brother's Wife (1936)
• Maytime (1937)
• The Emperor's Candlesticks
  The Emperor's Candlesticks (film)
  The Emperor's Candlesticks is a 1937 film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer, based on the novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy. It was directed by George Fitzmaurice.-Plot:...
  
   (1937)
• Live, Love and Learn (1937)
• Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)

• Love Is a Headache (1938)
• The First Hundred Years (1938)
• The Crowd Roars
  The Crowd Roars (1938 film)
  The Crowd Roars is a 1938 film starring Robert Taylor as a boxer who gets entangled in the seamier side of the sport. It was remade in 1947 as Killer McCoy, featuring Mickey Rooney in the title role.-Cast:*Robert Taylor as Tommy "Killer" McCoy...
  
   (1938)
• Spring Madness (1938)
• Honolulu
  Honolulu (1939 film)
  Honolulu is an American musical film that was released by MGM in 1939. The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Robert Young, and was directed by Edward Buzzell....
  
   (1939)
• Sergeant Madden
  Sergeant Madden
  Sergeant Madden is a 1939 film noir forerunner directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Wallace Beery. The supporting cast in this dark police movie, noted for its imaginative and evocative cinematography, includes Laraine Day, Alan Curtis, and Marc Lawrence.-Cast:*Wallace Beery as Sergeant...
  
   (1939)
• 6,000 Enemies
  6,000 Enemies
  6,000 Enemies is a 1939 American drama film starring Walter Pidgeon as a successful District Attorney who is framed on charge of bribery. Although innocent, he is sent to prison where he fights to clear his name.- Cast :* Walter Pidgeon as Steve Donegan...
  
   (1939)
• Henry Goes Arizona
  Henry Goes Arizona
  Henry Goes Arizona is a 1939 western film starring Frank Morgan as an actor who inherits his dead brother's ranch. While adjusting to the country there, he is threatened by a gang who is after the ranch. The film was directed by Edwin L...
  
   (1939)
• Northwest Passage (1940)
• The Man from Dakota
  The Man from Dakota
  The Man from Dakota is a 1940 film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring Wallace Beery. The movie was adapted by Laurence Stallings from the novel by MacKinlay Kantor.-Cast:*Wallace Beery as Bar Barstow*John Howard as Oliver Clark...
  
   (1940)
• And One Was Beautiful
  And One Was Beautiful
  And One Was Beautiful is a 1940 romantic drama film starring Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, and Jean Muir. It is based on the story of the same name by Alice Duer Miller. Two sisters are attracted to a rich playboy...
  
   (1940)
• Phantom Raiders (1940)
• The Golden Fleecing (1940)
• Hullabaloo
  Hullabaloo (film)
  Hullabaloo is a 1940 musical comedy film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Nat Perrin. It stars Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Billie Burke, Donald Meek, Reginald Owen and Connie Gilchrist...
  
   (1940)
• The Bad Man
  The Bad Man
  The Bad Man is a 1941 Western film starring Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Ronald Reagan. The movie was written by Wells Root from the Porter Emerson Browne play, and directed by Richard Thorpe...
  
   (1941)
• The Big Store
  The Big Store
  The Big Store is a Marx Brothers comedy film in which Groucho, Chico and Harpo work to save the Phelps Department Store, owned by Martha Phelps . Groucho plays her detective and bodyguard Wolf J...
  
   (1941)
• Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)
• The Omaha Trail
  The Omaha Trail
  The Omaha Trail is a 1942 film directed by Edward Buzzell. It stars James Craig and Pamela Blake.-Cast:* James Craig as Pat Candel* Pamela Blake as Julie Santley* Dean Jagger as Pipsestone Ross* Edward Ellis as Mr...
  
   (1942)
• I Married an Angel
  I Married an Angel (film)
  I Married an Angel is an a 1942 American motion picture based on the 1938 musical comedy of the same name by Rodgers and Hart. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who were then a popular onscreen couple...
  
   (1942)
• Kathleen (1942)
• Grand Central Murder
  Grand Central Murder
  Grand Central Murder is a comedy/mystery film released in 1942. It was based on Sue MacVeigh's 1939 novel of the same name, and stars Van Heflin as a private investigator who is one of the suspects in a murder on a private train car in Grand Central Terminal. The film was directed by S...
  
   (1942)
• The Human Comedy
  The Human Comedy (film)
  The Human Comedy is a 1943 drama film directed by Clarence Brown and adapted by Howard Estabrook. It is often thought to be based on the William Saroyan novel of the same name, but actually Saroyan wrote the screenplay first, was fired from the movie project, and quickly wrote the novel and...
  
   (1943)
• An American Romance (1944)
• Nothing but Trouble
  Nothing But Trouble (1944 film)
  Nothing But Trouble is a late Laurel and Hardy feature. The plot involves the team as a chef and a butler wrecking a dinner party - the bit where they cook a rubber steak and try to carve it at the table is particularly humorous...
  
   (1945)
• Courage of Lassie
  Courage of Lassie
  Courage of Lassie is a 1946 MGM feature film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, and dog actor Pal in a story about a collie named Bill and his young companion, Kathie Merrick. When Bill is separated from Kathie following a vehicular accident, he is trained as a war dog, performs heroically,...
  
   (1946)
• No Leave, No Love
  No Leave, No Love
  No Leave, No Love is a 1946 American musical film directed by Charles Martin and starring Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn and Patricia Kirkwood. A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else...
  
   (1946)
• High Barbaree (1947)
• High Wall
  High Wall
  High Wall is a film noir, starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole, based on a play by Alan R...
  
   (1948)
• Act of Violence (1949)
• Border Incident
  Border Incident
  Border Incident is a film noir directed by Anthony Mann. The MGM film was written by John C. Higgins and George Zuckerman. The film was shot by cinematographer John Alton who used shadows and lighting effects to involve an audience despite the fact that the film was shot on a low budget...
  
   (1949)
• Side Street (1949)
• Devil's Doorway
  Devil's Doorway
  Devil's Doorway is a 1950 western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Robert Taylor as an Indian who returns home from the American Civil War a hero awarded the Medal of Honor. However, his hopes for a peaceful life are shattered by bigotry and greed.-Plot:The Civil War may be over back...
  
   (1950)
• King Solomon's Mines
  King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)
  King Solomon's Mines is a 1950 adventure film loosely based on the 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. It was adapted by Helen Deutsch, directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
   (1950)
• Vengeance Valley
  Vengeance Valley
  Vengeance Valley is a Western film starring Burt Lancaster, based on the novel by Luke Short. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer failed to renew the copyright on this film in 1978, so it is now in the public domain in the United States.-Plot:...
  
   (1951)
• Too Young to Kiss
  Too Young to Kiss
  Too Young to Kiss is a 1951 comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring June Allyson. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction Too Young to Kiss is a 1951 comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring June Allyson. It was nominated for an Academy Award for...
  
  (1951)
• The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow (1952 film)
  The Merry Widow is a 1952 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It starred Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas.The film received two Academy Award nominations: for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color and Best Costume Design, Color...
  
   (1952)
• The Bad and the Beautiful
  The Bad and the Beautiful
  The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 MGM melodramatic film that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. It was directed by Vincente Minelli and stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. The film was...
  
   (1953)
• The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
  The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
  The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is a black and white 1953 comedy musical film. The film is based on the same writings by Max Shulman as the subsequent television series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis...
  
   (1953)
• Gypsy Colt (1954)
• Death of a Scoundrel
  Death of a Scoundrel
  Death of a Scoundrel is a 1956 film starring George Sanders, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Yvonne De Carlo. It was written and directed by Charles Martin.Death of a Scoundrel is a fictionalized adaptation of the life and mysterious death of Serge Rubenstein....
  
  (1956)