Glenn Farr

Glenn Farr is an American film editor who received an Academy Award for Best Editing at the 1984 Academy Awards .

life and work

Farr trained at UCLA in 1968-69 and began his career as an editor in Hollywood in 1971 on the documentary Mad Dogs & Englishmen . Since then he has been responsible for editing more than forty films and television series .

In 1984 he won an Oscar for best editing with Lisa Fruchtman , Stephen A. Rotter , Douglas Stewart and Tom Rolf with the film The Stuff The Heroes Are Made Of (1983) by Philip Kaufman , with Sam Shepard , Scott Glenn and Ed Harris in the lead roles .

In addition, he, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter and Tom Rolf were nominated for the editing of this film for an Eddie , the award of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).

Filmography (selection)

• 1971: Mad Dogs & Englishmen (documentary)
• 1977: ABC Weekend Specials (TV series)
• 1983: The Right Stuff (The Right Stuff)
• 1985: The Phantom Commando (Commando)
• 1986: Nothing in Common - you have nothing in common (Nothing in Common)
• 1987: Oh Happy Day
• 1987: Real Men (Real Men)
• 1988: The Serpent and the Rainbow (The Serpent and the Rainbow)
• 1989: Old Gringo
• 1991: Kevin's cousin alone in the supermarket (Career Opportunities)
• 1991: Death in the Mirror (Shattered)
• 1992: A yuppie stands in the woods (Out on a Limb)
• 1995: A judge accounts (Broken Trust)
• 1996: Marilyn - Your Life (Norma Jean & Marilyn)
• 2000: American Tragedy (TV movie)
• 2000: A dark spirit (The Darkling)
• 2004: The Dust Factory - Die Staubfabrik (The Dust Factory)
• 2006: Akeelah is the greatest (Akeelah and the Bee)
• 2007: Rome (TV series)
• 2008–2012: The Mentalist (TV series)
• 2012–2013: Nashville (TV series)

Awards

• 1984 : Oscar for the best editing

Web links

• Glenn Farr in the Internet Movie Database (English)