Trivia

President of the American Cinema Editors, 1965 and 1966.

Won the Golden Globe Award as editor of "Wall of Fire". Also received four Emmy Awards for The Blue Knight (1973), The Glass House (1972), The Waltons (1972) and Rawhide (1959). Academy Award winner for the documentary, Seeds of Destiny (1946), while on service with the U.S. Army Special Services in World War II.

Originally trained for a life on the seas at Maritime School and was a fully qualified third mate by the time his family moved from New York to Southern California. Fowler then changed career paths and learned film editing at 20th Century Fox.

Many of his friends and colleagues remarked on how he bore an astonishing resemblance to Spencer Tracy.

Son of screenwriter-novelist Gene Fowler and Agnes Fowler.

Son-in-law of Nunnally Johnson and Dorris Bowdon.

Father of Gene N. Fowler.

Uncle-in-law of Jack Johnson.