Glenn Farr

Glenn Farr
Glenn Farr
Born	March 28, 1946
Died	May 25, 2023 (aged 77)
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1973–2017

Glenn Farr (March 28, 1946 – May 25, 2023) was an American film and television 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. Rotter and Douglas Stewart.^[1] He died from complications from a brain tumor on May 25, 2023, at the age of 77.^[2]^[3]

Selected filmography

Editor
Year	Film	Director	Notes
1980	Fatso	Anne Bancroft
1983	The Right Stuff	Philip Kaufman
1984	Runaway	Michael Crichton	First collaboration with Michael Crichton
1985	Commando	Mark L. Lester
1986	Nothing in Common	Garry Marshall
1987	Real Men	Dennis Feldman
1988	The Serpent and the Rainbow	Wes Craven
1989	Physical Evidence	Michael Crichton	Second collaboration with Michael Crichton
1989	Old Gringo	Luis Puenzo
1991	Shattered	Wolfgang Petersen
1991	Career Opportunities	Bryan Gordon
1992	Out on a Limb	Francis Veber
2004	The Dust Factory	Eric Small
2006	Akeelah and the Bee	Doug Atchison

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1973	A Matter of Winning	Kieth Merrill	Assistant editor
1974	Harry and Tonto	Paul Mazursky	Assistant editor	First collaboration with Paul Mazursky
1975	W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings	John G. Avildsen	Assistant film editor
1976	Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Paul Mazursky	Assistant editor	Second collaboration with Paul Mazursky
1993	The Temp	Tom Holland	Additional editor
1999	Brokedown Palace	Jonathan Kaplan	Additional editor
2017	Bokeh	Geoffrey Orthwein Andrew Sullivan	Editing consultant

Thanks
Year	Film	Director	Role
2005	Aurora Borealis	James C.E. Burke	Special thanks

Direct-to-video films

Thanks
Year	Film	Director	Role
1994	Fortunes of War	Thierry Notz	The producers wish to thank

Documentaries

Editor
Year	Film	Director
1981	This Is Elvis	Andrew Solt Malcolm Leo
1983	Gospel	David Leivick Frederick A. Ritzenberg

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role
1971	Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen	Pierre Adidge	Assistant editor
1972	Elvis on Tour	Pierre Adidge Robert Abel	Post-production coordinator

Music department
Year	Film	Director	Role
1971	Soul to Soul	Denis Sanders	Music editor

Producer
Year	Film	Director	Credit
1999	Voices from the Lake	J. Michael Hagopian	Producer

Production manager
Year	Film	Director	Role
1973	Let the Good Times Roll	Robert Abel Sidney Levin	Post-production supervisor

Thanks
Year	Film	Director	Role
1995	Frank and Ollie	Theodore Thomas	Special thanks
2006	Screamers	Carla Garapedian	Thanks

Direct-to-video documentaries

Editor
Year	Film	Director
1987	Oh Happy Day	David Leivick Frederick A. Ritzenberg

Additional crew
Year	Film	Director	Role
2008	The River Ran Red	J. Michael Hagopian	Production consultant

Shorts

Thanks
Year	Film	Director	Role
2001	The Rib	Mary Ann Skweres	The director and producers wish to thank

TV documentaries

Editor
Year	Film	Director
1979	Heroes of Rock and Roll	Andrew Solt Malcolm Leo

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role
1978	Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend	Marshall Flaum	Supervising editor

TV movies

Editor
Year	Film	Director
1986	The B.R.A.T. Patrol	Mollie Miller
1989	Mothers, Daughters and Lovers	Matthew Robbins
1994	Confessions of a Sorority Girl	Uli Edel
1995	Broken Trust	Geoffrey Sax
1996	Norma Jean & Marilyn	Tim Fywell
1998	Everything That Rises	Dennis Quaid
1998	Hard Time	Burt Reynolds
1999	Hard Time: Hostage Hotel	Hal Needham
2000	The Spring	David Jackson
2000	The Darkling	Po-Chih Leong
2002	Johnson County War	David S. Cass Sr.

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role
2000	American Tragedy	Lawrence Schiller	Additional editor

TV series

Editor
Year	Title	Notes
1977	ABC Weekend Special	1 episode
1985	National Geographic Explorer
1986	The Disney Sunday Movie
2002	Johnson County War	—
2007	Rome	5 episodes
2007	K-Ville	4 episodes
2008−12	The Mentalist	33 episodes
2012−13	Nashville	5 episodes
2015	Wayward Pines	1 episode

Editorial department
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	National Geographic Specials	Assistant editor	3 episodes
2015	Wayward Pines	Additional editing by	1 episode

Sound department
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	National Geographic Specials	Sound recordist	1 episode

TV shorts

Editor
Year	Film	Director
1977	My Dear Uncle Sherlock	Arthur H. Nadel

References

^ "The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
^ Scorziello, Sophia (June 1, 2023). "Glenn Farr, Oscar-Winning Editor of 'The Right Stuff,' Dies at 77". Variety. Archived from the original on June 1, 2023. Retrieved June 1, 2023.
^ Haring, Bruce (June 1, 2023). "Glenn Farr Dies: Oscar-Winning Editor On 'The Right Stuff' Was 77". Deadline. Archived from the original on June 2, 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2023.

External links

Glenn Farr at IMDb

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[Oscars1984-1] "The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2014.

[2] Scorziello, Sophia (June 1, 2023). "Glenn Farr, Oscar-Winning Editor of 'The Right Stuff,' Dies at 77". Variety. Archived from the original on June 1, 2023. Retrieved June 1, 2023.

[3] Haring, Bruce (June 1, 2023). "Glenn Farr Dies: Oscar-Winning Editor On 'The Right Stuff' Was 77". Deadline. Archived from the original on June 2, 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2023.

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v t e Academy Award for Best Film Editing
1934–1950	Conrad A. Nervig (1934) Ralph Dawson (1935) Ralph Dawson (1936) Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937) Ralph Dawson (1938) Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939) Anne Bauchens (1940) William Holmes (1941) Daniel Mandell (1942) George Amy (1943) Barbara McLean (1944) Robert J. Kern (1945) Daniel Mandell (1946) Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947) Paul Weatherwax (1948) Harry W. Gerstad (1949) Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)
1951–1975	William Hornbeck (1951) Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952) William Lyon (1953) Gene Milford (1954) Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955) Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956) Peter Taylor (1957) Adrienne Fazan (1958) Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959) Daniel Mandell (1960) Thomas Stanford (1961) Anne V. Coates (1962) Harold F. Kress (1963) Cotton Warburton (1964) William Reynolds (1965) Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo (1966) Hal Ashby (1967) Frank P. Keller (1968) Françoise Bonnot (1969) Hugh S. Fowler (1970) Gerald B. Greenberg (1971) David Bretherton (1972) William Reynolds (1973) Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974) Verna Fields (1975)
1976–2000	Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976) Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977) Peter Zinner (1978) Alan Heim (1979) Thelma Schoonmaker (1980) Michael Kahn (1981) John Bloom (1982) Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983) Jim Clark (1984) Thom Noble (1985) Claire Simpson (1986) Gabriella Cristiani (1987) Arthur Schmidt (1988) David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989) Neil Travis (1990) Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991) Joel Cox (1992) Michael Kahn (1993) Arthur Schmidt (1994) Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995) Walter Murch (1996) Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997) Michael Kahn (1998) Zach Staenberg (1999) Stephen Mirrione (2000)
2001–present	Pietro Scalia (2001) Martin Walsh (2002) Jamie Selkirk (2003) Thelma Schoonmaker (2004) Hughes Winborne (2005) Thelma Schoonmaker (2006) Christopher Rouse (2007) Chris Dickens (2008) Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2011) William Goldenberg (2012) Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013) Tom Cross (2014) Margaret Sixel (2015) John Gilbert (2016) Lee Smith (2017) John Ottman (2018) Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019) Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020) Joe Walker (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Jennifer Lame (2023)
Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999

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