Famous film editors

person who works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture

300 people

All Alive Deceased
Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

1889 – 1977 · Age 88
Deceased
Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

1899 – 1980 · Age 80
Deceased
Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

1910 – 1998 · Age 88
Deceased
Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

1946 · Age 79
Alive
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

1928 – 1999 · Age 70
Deceased
Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

1898 – 1948 · Age 50
Deceased
Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

1921 – 1992 · Age 70
Deceased
George Lucas

George Lucas

1944 · Age 81
Alive
Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

1963 · Age 62
Alive
James Cameron

James Cameron

1954 · Age 71
Alive
Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

1940 · Age 85
Alive
Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

1942 · Age 83
Alive
Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki

1941 · Age 85
Alive
David Lynch

David Lynch

1946 – 2025 · Age 78
Deceased
Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

1970 · Age 55
Alive
Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

1961 · Age 64
Alive
Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

1939 · Age 86
Alive
Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky

1932 – 1986 · Age 54
Deceased
André Malraux

André Malraux

1901 – 1976 · Age 75
Deceased
Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

1930 – 2022 · Age 91
Deceased
Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

1895 – 1966 · Age 70
Deceased
Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

1900 – 1983 · Age 83
Deceased
Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme

1960 · Age 65
Alive
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

1817 – 1895 · Age 78
Deceased
Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

1902 – 2003 · Age 101
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q7042855