Gerald B. Greenberg

Gerald B. Greenberg

29.07.1936 - 22.12.2017 (81 years)

Gerald B. "Jerry" Greenberg (July 29, 1936 – December 22, 2017) was an American film editor with more than 40 feature film credits. Greenberg received both the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film The French Connection (1971). In the 1980s, he edited five films with director Brian De Palma. Greenberg began his career as an assistant to Dede Allen on the film America America (1963), directed by Elia Kazan. Allen has been called "the most important film editor in the most explosive era of American film". She helped develop the careers of several editors known as "Dede's boys", and Greenberg was the first.Greenberg was Allen's assistant again on Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which was directed by Arthur Penn. The editing of the ambush scene in this film in which Bonnie and Clyde are killed has been very influential, and Allen credited Greenberg with its actual "cutting". Greenberg was the associate editor for Alice's Restaurant (1969), again directed by Penn and edited by Allen. By that time Greenberg's independent editing career had commenced with Bye Bye Braverman (1968), which was directed by Sidney Lumet. Greenberg later co-edited Penn's The Missouri Breaks (1976) with Allen and Stephen A. Rotter.

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Trapped (2016)

IMDB: 7.5 (13066 votes)
Awakenings (2014)

IMDB: 6.0 (20 votes)
Invincible (2006)

IMDB: 7.1 (63029 votes)
Angel Eyes (2001)

IMDB: 5.7 (24692 votes)
American History X (1998)

IMDB: 8.5 (990960 votes)
School Ties (1992)

IMDB: 6.9 (25652 votes)
The Untouchables (1987)

IMDB: 7.9 (265511 votes)
Wise Guys (1986)

IMDB: 5.7 (5112 votes)
Scarface (1983)

IMDB: 8.3 (697683 votes)
Dressed to Kill (1980)

IMDB: 7.1 (32986 votes)
Apocalypse Now (1979)

IMDB: 8.4 (573613 votes)