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Richard C. Meyer
Born	(1920-04-05)April 5, 1920 Frankfurt, Weimar Republic
Died	July 19, 1985(1985-07-19) (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Film editor, writer and producer

Richard C. Meyer (April 5, 1920 – July 19, 1985) was a German-American television and film editor and occasional film writer and film producer. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Editing for the miniseries King (1978). He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1970, which he shared with John C. Howard.

Meyer worked as a film editor for such films as Waterloo, Capone and Three in the Attic.

Selected filmography

Editor
Year	Film	Director	Notes
1955	Seven Angry Men	Charles Marquis Warren
1956	Crime in the Streets	Don Siegel
1956	The Wild Party	Harry Horner
1957	Oedipus Rex	Tyrone Guthrie
	Men in War	Anthony Mann	First collaboration with Anthony Mann
	Hot Rod Rumble	Leslie H. Martinson
	Reform School Girl	Edward Bernds	First collaboration with Edward Bernds
	Undersea Girl	John Peyser
	Motorcycle Gang	Edward L. Cahn
1958	God's Little Acre	Anthony Mann	Second collaboration with Anthony Mann
1958	Anna Lucasta	Arnold Laven
1959	The Sad Horse	James B. Clark
	Return of the Fly	Edward Bernds	Third collaboration with Edward Bernds
	Happy Anniversary	David Miller
1960	Young Jesse James	William F. Claxton
1963	The Castilian	Javier Setó
1968	Three in the Attic	Richard Wilson
1969	Winning	James Goldstone
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill
1970	Waterloo	Sergei Bondarchuk
1975	Capone	Steve Carver
1976	Albino	Jürgen Goslar
1982	Silent Rage	Michael Miller	First collaboration with Michael Miller
	Class Reunion	Michael Miller	Second collaboration with Michael Miller
	Jimmy the Kid	Gary Nelson
1985	Hollywood Harry	Robert Forster

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1959	Alaska Passage	Edward Bernds	Supervising editor	Second collaboration with Edward Bernds
1972	Z.P.G.	Michael Campus	Supervising editor
1975	The Eiger Sanction	Clint Eastwood	Assistant editor: United States
1979	Pacific Inferno	Rolf Bayer	Editorial supervisor
1980	Getting Wasted	Paul Frizler
1980	The Unseen	Danny Steinmann
1987	Emanon	Stuart Paul	Supervising editor

Additional crew
Year	Film	Director	Role
1975	Cry, Onion!	Enzo G. Castellari	Creative consultant
1976	The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane	Nicolas Gessner	Creative consultant

Producer
Year	Film	Director	Credit
1964	Pyro... The Thing Without a Face	Julio Coll	Producer
1970	Waterloo	Sergei Bondarchuk	Associate executive

Documentaries

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role
1967	Teenage Rebellion	Norman T. Herman Jörn Donner Jean Herman Walt Sheldon Eriprando Visconti	Supervising editor

Producer
Year	Film	Director	Credit
1967	Teenage Rebellion	Norman T. Herman Jörn Donner Jean Herman Walt Sheldon Eriprando Visconti	Associate producer

TV movies

Editor
Year	Film	Director
1966	Scalplock	James Goldstone
1974	The Girl on the Late, Late Show	Gary Nelson
1978	King	Abby Mann
1978	My Husband Is Missing	Richard Michaels
1979	Sex and the Single Parent	Jackie Cooper

Production manager
Year	Film	Director	Role
1979	The Darker Side of Terror	Gus Trikonis	Post-production supervisor

TV series

Editor
Year	Title	Notes
1951	The Bigelow Theatre	1 episode
1953−55	The Jack Benny Program	7 episodes
1960	Assignment: Underwater	3 episodes
1965	The Wackiest Ship in the Army	1 episode
1966−67	Iron Horse	10 episodes
1967	The Second Hundred Years	1 episode
1968	The Guns of Will Sonnett
1969	The Outcasts
1969	The Bold Ones: The Protectors
1973−74	Police Story	5 episodes
1978	King	3 episodes

Editorial department
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960	Assignment: Underwater	Supervising editor	5 episodes

Writer
Year	Title	Notes
1966	Iron Horse	1 episode
1979	A Man Called Sloane	1 episode

References

^ "Richard C. Meyer". BFI.org. Archived from the original on March 26, 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

External links

Richard C. Meyer at IMDb

v t e BAFTA Award for Best Editing
1966–2000	Tom Priestley (1966) No Award (1967) Sam O'Steen (1968) Hugh A. Robertson (1969) John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer (1970) Richard Marden (1971) Gerald B. Greenberg (1972) Ralph Kemplen (1973) Richard Chew and Walter Murch (1974) Dede Allen (1975) Richard Chew, Sheldon Kahn and Lynzee Klingman (1976) Wendy Greene Bricmont and Ralph Rosenblum (1977) Gerry Hambling (1978) Peter Zinner (1979) Alan Heim (1980) Thelma Schoonmaker (1981) Françoise Bonnot (1982) Walt Mulconery and Bud S. Smith (1983) Jim Clark (1984) Michael Chandler and Nena Danevic (1985) Jim Clark (1986) Claire Simpson (1987) Peter E. Berger and Michael Kahn (1988) Gerry Hambling (1989) Thelma Schoonmaker (1990) Gerry Hambling (1991) Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1992) Michael Kahn (1993) John Wright (1994) John Ottman (1995) Walter Murch (1996) Peter Honess (1997) David Gamble (1998) Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury (1999) Pietro Scalia (2000)
2001–present	Mary Sweeney (2001) Daniel Rezende (2002) Sarah Flack (2003) Valdís Óskarsdóttir (2004) Claire Simpson (2005) Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse (2006) Christopher Rouse (2007) Chris Dickens (2008) Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009) Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (2010) Chris King and Gregers Sall (2011) William Goldenberg (2012) Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (2013) Tom Cross (2014) Margaret Sixel (2015) John Gilbert (2016) Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos (2017) Hank Corwin (2018) Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019) Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020) Tom Cross and Elliot Graham (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Jennifer Lame (2023)

BAFTA Award for Best Editing

1966–2000

Tom Priestley (1966)
No Award (1967)
Sam O'Steen (1968)
Hugh A. Robertson (1969)
John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer (1970)
Richard Marden (1971)
Gerald B. Greenberg (1972)
Ralph Kemplen (1973)
Richard Chew and Walter Murch (1974)
Dede Allen (1975)
Richard Chew, Sheldon Kahn and Lynzee Klingman (1976)
Wendy Greene Bricmont and Ralph Rosenblum (1977)
Gerry Hambling (1978)
Peter Zinner (1979)
Alan Heim (1980)
Thelma Schoonmaker (1981)
Françoise Bonnot (1982)
Walt Mulconery and Bud S. Smith (1983)
Jim Clark (1984)
Michael Chandler and Nena Danevic (1985)
Jim Clark (1986)
Claire Simpson (1987)
Peter E. Berger and Michael Kahn (1988)
Gerry Hambling (1989)
Thelma Schoonmaker (1990)
Gerry Hambling (1991)
Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1992)
Michael Kahn (1993)
John Wright (1994)
John Ottman (1995)
Walter Murch (1996)
Peter Honess (1997)
David Gamble (1998)
Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury (1999)
Pietro Scalia (2000)

2001–present

Mary Sweeney (2001)
Daniel Rezende (2002)
Sarah Flack (2003)
Valdís Óskarsdóttir (2004)
Claire Simpson (2005)
Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse (2006)
Christopher Rouse (2007)
Chris Dickens (2008)
Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (2010)
Chris King and Gregers Sall (2011)
William Goldenberg (2012)
Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (2013)
Tom Cross (2014)
Margaret Sixel (2015)
John Gilbert (2016)
Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos (2017)
Hank Corwin (2018)
Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019)
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020)
Tom Cross and Elliot Graham (2021)
Paul Rogers (2022)
Jennifer Lame (2023)

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