18 days ago
Yahoo
Donn Cambern, the Oscar-nominated Romancing the Stone film editor whose credits also include Easy Rider, The Last Picture Show and Ghostbusters II and was a longtime president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, died Wednesday, his family told the guild. His father was in the music-publishing business, and his mother played harp on movie soundtracks including Top Hat for the RKO Pictures orchestra. After editing the Nicholson-helmed Drive, He Said, his next gig was Peter Bogdanovich’s 1970 Best Picture Oscar nominee The Last Picture Show. Along the way, Cambern was elected president of MPSE — IATSE Local 700 — in 1992 and served in the post until 2001. We are forever grateful to him.”Cambern also served as a longtime Governor for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Editors Branch and was a VP of the Academy for several years.
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