Jerry Greenberg
About
Biography
Biography
Top New York-based editor whose facility with taut action scenes was dazzlingly displayed in a trilogy of urban crime pictures: "The French Connection" (1971), "The Seven-Ups" (1973), and "The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3" (1974). Greenberg cut most of Brian DePalma's films in the 1980s.
Filmography
Editing (Feature Film)
Editing (TV Mini-Series)
Life Events
1968
Feature debut as editor, "Bye Bye Braverman", directed by Sidney Lumet
1969
Cut Arthur Penn's "Alice's Restaurant"
1971
Won Oscar for his work on "The French Connection", featuring stellar work particularly in the now-famous car chase sequences
1976
TV-movie debut, "The Disappearance of Aimee" (NBC)
1979
Received two Oscar nominations in the same year for his editing on Francis Ford Coppola's war epic "Apocalypse Now" and the more intimate family drama "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1980
First collaboration with Brian DePalma, "Dressed to Kill"
1980
Co-edited Michael Cimino's now legendary Western "Heaven's Gate"
1981
Served as an editor on Warren Beatty's romantic epic "Reds"
1983
Was editor of De Palma's remake of "Scarface"
1987
Cut De Palma's "The Untouchables"
1990
Was editor on Penny Marshall's "Awakenings"
1992
Co-edited "School Ties"
1996
Reteamed with De Palma as one of the editors of "Mission: Impossible"
1998
Co-edited "American History X"
2000
Was editor of "Duets"
Videos
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