Ernst Ragnar Rolf (December 31, 1931 – July 14, 2014), better known as Tom Rolf, was a Swedish-born American
film editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology.
The film edit ...
who worked on at least 48 feature films in a career spanning over fifty years. Most notable among these films are
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominatio ...
's ''
Taxi Driver
''Taxi Driver'' is a 1976 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying and ...
'', for which he was nominated for the 1976
BAFTA Award
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for
Best Editing, and
Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than six decades. He has been described as a "maverick" and an "iconoclast," notable for his versati ...
's ''
The Right Stuff'', for which he and his editing team won the 1983
Oscar
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People
* Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms.
* Oscar (Irish mythology), ...
for
Best Film Editing. Other notable films he edited include ''
WarGames
''WarGames'' is a 1983 American science fiction techno-thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film, which stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy, follows Dav ...
'', ''
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder ( he, סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב ) is a ladder leading to heaven that was featured in a dream the biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).
The significance of th ...
'', ''
Heat
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'' and ''
The Horse Whisperer''.
A member of the
American Cinema Editors
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(ACE) since the mid-1950s,
Rolf served two terms as president of that guild. He also served on the Board of Governors at the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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for five terms (15 years), representing the editing branch from 1992 through 2007.
[ He received the ACE Career Achievement Award in 2003.][ Rolf's age when he died is incorrect in the headline.]
Personal life
Ernst R. Rolf was born in Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
, Stockholm County
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, Sweden
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on New Year's Eve, 1931, the son of actor Ernst Rolf
Ernst Ragnar Johansson (20 January 1891– 25 December 1932), professionally known as Ernst Rolf was a Swedish actor, singer and composer and musical revue artist. Ernst Rolf. ''sv.wikipedia.org''. Retrieved: March 10, 2013. Rolf was born in Falun ...
and Norwegian-born actress Tutta Rolf
Tutta Rolf (born Solveig Jenny Berntzen; 7 October 1907 – 26 October 1994) was a Norwegian-Swedish film and theatre actress and singer. Born in Oslo. She appeared in 14 films between 1932 and 1939. She was married three times, firstly to Swedi ...
. After his father's death in 1932, Tutta married American director and choreographer Jack Donohue, who advised the young Ernst to go into film editing.[
Rolf worked as a ]ski patrol
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man and was a seaman for the Norwegian Merchant Marine before emigrating to the United States
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, after which he spent three years in the United States Marine Corps
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.[ He considered pursuing a career as a ]film director
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like his step-father, but Donohue convinced him to first try his hand at film editing, telling him he would "learn everything about directing by being a film editor first."
On July 14, 2014, Rolf died at his home in France
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due to complications following hip surgery. He was 82.
Editing career
Early years, Levy-Gardiner-Laven and first films of the '70s
At the start of his career, Rolf spent a then-required eight years serving as an apprentice and assistant editor.[ One of Rolf's earliest jobs as an editor was the 1959 Swedish-American co-production '' Space Invasion of Lapland''. Among the films he worked on as an assistant editor was ]Levy-Gardner-Laven Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions was an American film production company based in Beverly Hills, California. The principals, Jules V. Levy, Arthur Gardner, and Arnold Laven, met while serving in the Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit during Wo ...
's 1962 Western ''Geronimo
Geronimo ( apm, Goyaałé, , ; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache ba ...
''. Levy-Gardner-Laven later made Rolf one of the head editors of their 1965 Western, ''The Glory Guys
''The Glory Guys'' is a 1965 American Western film directed by Arnold Laven and written by Sam Peckinpah, based on the 1956 novel ''The Dice of God'' by Hoffman Birney. Filmed by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, it stars Tom ...
''; Rolf's editing partner on this film was Melvin Shapiro, with whom Rolf would work again on ''Taxi Driver
''Taxi Driver'' is a 1976 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying and ...
'' over ten years later.
When Levy-Gardner-Laven began production on the Western television series
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''The Big Valley
''The Big Valley'' is an American Western drama television series that originally aired from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969 on ABC. The series is set on the fictional Barkley Ranch in Stockton, California, from 1884 to 1888. The one-hour e ...
'', they brought in Rolf to serve as one of the editors of the show. He edited nine episodes of the first season, which ran from 1965 to 1966. At the start of the second season, in 1966, he became the show's editorial coordinator, a position he held until the series ended in 1969.[ In 1967, starting with the third season of ''The Big Valley'', he took on the name "Tom Rolf."
Rolf's first feature film as a solo editor was another Levy-Gardner-Laven production, the 1967 ]Elvis Presley
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picture ''Clambake
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''. Rolf worked on a few more Levy-Gardner-Laven productions, including the 1970 releases ''Underground'' (which, like ''Clambake'', was directed by Arthur H. Nadel) and ''The McKenzie Break
''The McKenzie Break'' is a 1970 British war drama film starring Brian Keith as Jack Connor, an intelligence officer investigating recent disturbances at a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Scotland. The Nazi German POWs are led by the charismatic ...
''. The latter was the first of four films Rolf would edit for director Lamont Johnson
Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. (September 30, 1922 – October 24, 2010) was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.
Early years
Johnson was born in Stoc ...
; their subsequent collaborations were ''The Last American Hero
''The Last American Hero'' (also known as ''Hard Driver'') is a 1973 American sports drama film based on the true story of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson. Directed by Lamont Johnson (no relation), the film stars Jeff Bridges as Junior Jackson, a cha ...
'' (1973), ''Visit to a Chief's Son
''Visit to a Chief's Son'' is a 1974 American adventure film directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Richard Mulligan and Johnny Sekka.
Plot
An American arthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Cast
...
'' (1974) and the 1975 TV movie ''Fear on Trial''. Rolf also edited two 1973 releases for Richard C. Sarafian
Richard Caspar Sarafian (April 28, 1930 – September 18, 2013) was an Armenian-American film director and actor. He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades as a director, actor, and writer. Sarafian is best known as the direct ...
: ''Lolly-Madonna XXX
''Lolly-Madonna XXX'' (a.k.a. ''The Lolly-Madonna War'') is a 1973 film directed by Richard C. Sarafian. The film was co-written by Rodney Carr-Smith and Sue Grafton, based on the 1969 novel ''The Lolly-Madonna War'' by Grafton.
The movie was ...
'' and ''The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
''The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing'' is a novel written by Marilyn Durham first published in 1972.
Plot
The novel is set in the American West in the 1880s, but is not written in a genre style. It is the story of Jay, a man of the West, and his offbe ...
''.
Mid-to-late 1970s: Scorsese, Schrader and Frankenheimer
The turning point in Rolf's career came in 1975 when he and Melvin Shapiro were recruited by director Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominatio ...
to edit his crime drama ''Taxi Driver''.[ Released in 1976, ''Taxi Driver'' was nominated for four ]Academy Award
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s, including Best Picture
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Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
, and has come to be considered one of the greatest films of all time. The film also received three BAFTA Award
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s and four BAFTA nominations, including one for Rolf, Shapiro, and Marcia Lucas
Marcia Lou Lucas (née Griffin; born October 4, 1945)
*
*
is an American film editor and film producer. She is best known for her work editing Martin Scorsese's '' Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' (1973), ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), and '' New York, ...
for Best Editing. Scorsese hired Rolf again for his next film, the 1977 musical ''New York, New York
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'', before Scorsese began working with his regular editor, Thelma Schoonmaker
Thelma Schoonmaker (; born January 3, 1940) is an American film editor, known for her over five decades of work with frequent director Martin Scorsese. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film ''Who's That Knocking at My Door' ...
.
Paul Schrader
Paul Joseph Schrader (; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first received widespread recognition through his screenplay for Martin Scorsese's ''Taxi Driver'' (1976). He later continued his collabo ...
, the writer of ''Taxi Driver'', was so impressed with Rolf that he hired him for his directorial debut, the 1978 drama film ''Blue Collar
A blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled labor. The type of work may involving manufacturing, warehousing, mining, excavation, electricity generation and powe ...
'', and recruited Rolf again for his second feature, ''Hardcore
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Arts and media Film
* ''Hardcore'' (1977 film), a British comedy film
* ''Hardcore'' (1979 film), an American crime drama film starring George C Scott
* ''Hardcore'' (2001 film), a British documen ...
''. Rolf also edited three films for director John Frankenheimer
John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were ''Birdman of Alcatraz'' (1962), ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1 ...
in the mid-to-late 1970s: '' French Connection II'' (1975), '' Black Sunday'' (1977) and ''Prophecy
In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a ''prophet'') by a supernatural entity. Prophecies are a feature of many cultures and belief systems and usually contain divine will or law, or prete ...
'' (1979).
The 1980s and beyond
After co-editing Michael Cimino
Michael Antonio Cimino ( ; February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American filmmaker. One of the "New Hollywood" directors, Cimino achieved fame with ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best D ...
's infamous box office flop
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'' Heaven's Gate'', Rolf joined the editing team of Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than six decades. He has been described as a "maverick" and an "iconoclast," notable for his versati ...
's space race
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drama '' The Right Stuff''. The film was a critical (if not commercial) success and picked up four Academy Awards, including Best Editing for Rolf and his fellow editors, Glenn Farr
Glenn Farr is a film and TV editor who was one of the five film editors to win the Academy Award for Best Film Editing during the 56th Academy Awards for the film '' The Right Stuff''. He shared his win with Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. ...
, Lisa Fruchtman
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, Stephen A. Rotter and Douglas Stewart Douglas Stewart may refer to:
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*Edward Askew Sothern (1826–1881), English actor who was sometimes known as Douglas Stewart
* Douglas Stewart (equestrian) (1913–1991), British Olympic equestri ...
.
Rolf and the ''Right Stuff'' editing team were also nominated for an "Eddie" Award from American Cinema Editors
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(ACE). Although they did not win the award, Rolf himself won that year for his solo work on John Badham
John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an English television and film director, best known for his films ''Saturday Night Fever'' (1977), ''Dracula'' (1979), ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''WarGames'' (1983), ''Short Circuit'' (1986), and ...
's ''WarGames
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''. According to editor Mark Goldblatt
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Brooklyn born Goldblatt studied at the University of Wisconsin and London Film School, where his instru ...
, Rolf's very first cut of ''WarGames'' so satisfied Badham that the director signed off on it immediately with no additional notes for the editor. Badham later recruited Rolf for his 1987 crime-comedy ''Stakeout
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'', though this time the editor was paired up with Michael Ripps.
For director Adrian Lyne
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, Rolf edited 1986's ''9½ Weeks
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'' and 1990's ''Jacob's Ladder
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The significance of th ...
''. The latter is considered by some, including author and film scholar Vincent LoBrutto, to be a landmark in film editing due to the intricacies and complexities involved in cutting the picture and because it "furthered the montage style of editing and allowed filmmakers to strive for new forms." In 2010, Rolf told ''The Hollywood Reporter
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'' that ''Jacob's Ladder'' was the film he enjoyed working on the most, stating he was "very proud of that one."[
Rolf also edited or co-edited two films each for ]Douglas Day Stewart
Douglas Day Stewart is an American screenwriter and film director. He graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1962.
Filmography
Writer
*'' Room 222'' (episodes: "KWWH", "Stay Awhile, Mr. Dream Chaser", "The Quitter" and "You Don't Know Me, ...
('' Thief of Hearts'' and '' Quicksilver'') and Alan J. Pakula
Alan Jay Pakula (; April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture for ''To Kill a Mockingbird (film), To Kill a Moc ...
(''The Pelican Brief
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'' and ''The Devil's Own
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''). Additionally, he edited two television productions for Lawrence Schiller
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Career
Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn to Jewish parents and grew up outside of San Diego, California. After atten ...
: the 1981 movie
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''The Executioner's Song
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'' and the 2000 miniseries ''Perfect Murder, Perfect Town
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Including historic news and talk show footage, it covers in great de ...
''. Other notable films which were edited or co-edited by Rolf include Ridley Scott
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's '' Black Rain'' (1989), Michael Mann
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's ''Heat
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'' (1995), Robert Redford
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's '' The Horse Whisperer'' (1998), John Woo
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's ''Windtalkers
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'' and Kurt Wimmer
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Biography
He attended the University of South Florida and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA degree in Art History. He then moved to Los Angeles, wher ...
's '' Equilibrium'' (both 2002).
In 2003, Rolf re-teamed with ''Blue Collar'' and ''Hardcore'' director Paul Schrader to work on '' Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist''.[ It was released in 2005, though Rolf did not receive on-screen credit. The last film Rolf edited was the Russian ]Alexander Kolchak
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biopic ''Admiral
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'', released in 2008.
Selected filmography
*'' Space Invasion of Lapland'' (1959)
*''Geronimo
Geronimo ( apm, Goyaałé, , ; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache ba ...
'' (1962) (as assistant editor)
*'' Behold a Pale Horse'' (1964) (as assistant editor)
*''The Glory Guys
''The Glory Guys'' is a 1965 American Western film directed by Arnold Laven and written by Sam Peckinpah, based on the 1956 novel ''The Dice of God'' by Hoffman Birney. Filmed by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, it stars Tom ...
'' (1965)
*''The Big Valley
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'' - TV series (as editor, 1965–1967; as production coordinator, 1966–1969)
*''Clambake
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'' (1967)
*''The McKenzie Break
''The McKenzie Break'' is a 1970 British war drama film starring Brian Keith as Jack Connor, an intelligence officer investigating recent disturbances at a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Scotland. The Nazi German POWs are led by the charismatic ...
'' (1970)
*''The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
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'' (1971) (as writer)
*''The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
''The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing'' is a novel written by Marilyn Durham first published in 1972.
Plot
The novel is set in the American West in the 1880s, but is not written in a genre style. It is the story of Jay, a man of the West, and his offbe ...
'' (1973)
*''The Trial of Billy Jack
''The Trial of Billy Jack'' is a 1974 Western action film starring Delores Taylor and Tom Laughlin. It is the sequel to the 1971 film ''Billy Jack'' and the third film overall in the series.
Directed by Laughlin, the film has a running time of ...
'' (1974)
*'' French Connection II'' (1975)
*''Taxi Driver
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'' (1976)
*'' Black Sunday'' (1977)
*''New York, New York
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'' (1977)
*''Blue Collar
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'' (1978)
*''Hardcore
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Arts and media Film
* ''Hardcore'' (1977 film), a British comedy film
* ''Hardcore'' (1979 film), an American crime drama film starring George C Scott
* ''Hardcore'' (2001 film), a British documen ...
'' (1979)
*'' Heaven's Gate'' (1980)
*''Ghost Story
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'' (1981)
*''The Executioner's Song
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'' (1981) - TV movie
*''WarGames
''WarGames'' is a 1983 American science fiction techno-thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film, which stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy, follows Dav ...
'' (1983)
*'' The Right Stuff'' (1983)
*''9½ Weeks
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'' (1986)
*'' Outrageous Fortune'' (1987)
*''Stakeout
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'' (1987)
*'' The Great Outdoors'' (1988)
*'' Black Rain'' (1989)
*''Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder ( he, סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב ) is a ladder leading to heaven that was featured in a dream the biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).
The significance of th ...
'' (1990)
*''Sneakers
Sneakers (also called trainers, athletic shoes, tennis shoes, gym shoes, kicks, sport shoes, flats, running shoes, or runners) are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise, but which are now also widely used fo ...
'' (1992)
*'' Mr. Jones'' (1993)
*''The Pelican Brief
''The Pelican Brief'' is a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992 by Doubleday. It is his third novel after '' A Time to Kill'' and ''The Firm''. Two paperback editions were published, both by Dell Publishing in 1993. A na ...
'' (1993)
*''Dangerous Minds
''Dangerous Minds'' is a 1995 American drama film directed by John N. Smith and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It is based on the autobiography ''My Posse Don't Do Homework'' by retired U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who in 1989 too ...
'' (1995)
*''Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is defined as the form of energy crossing the boundary of a thermodynamic system by virtue of a temperature difference across the boundary. A thermodynamic system does not ''contain'' heat. Nevertheless, the term is al ...
'' (1995)
*''The Devil's Own
''The Devil's Own'' is a 1997 American action thriller film starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, with Rubén Blades, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles, Margaret Colin, and Treat Williams in supporting roles. It was the final film directed by ...
'' (1997)
*'' The Horse Whisperer'' (1998)
*''Perfect Murder, Perfect Town
''Perfect Murder, Perfect Town'' is a 2000 American television miniseries directed by Lawrence Schiller. The teleplay by Tom Topor is based on Schiller's book of the same title.
Including historic news and talk show footage, it covers in great de ...
'' (2000) - TV miniseries
*''Windtalkers
''Windtalkers'' is a 2002 American war film directed and co-produced by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, and Christian Slater. It is based on the real story of Navajo code talkers during ...
'' (2002)
*'' Equilibrium'' (2002)
*''Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ...
'' (2008)
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1931 births
2014 deaths
Best Film Editing Academy Award winners
Swedish film editors
Swedish emigrants to the United States
Artists from Stockholm
American film editors