George Folsey, Jr.

George Joseph Folsey Jr. ( born January 17, 1939 in Los Angeles ) is an American film editor and film producer and son of the cameraman George J. Folsey.

Life

After he graduated from Pomona College, he worked as an editor at the television station KABC - TV in Los Angeles. At that time, he founded a company that produced, among other Laugh-In sequences for film and television productions. Later he worked as a film producer and editor for film and television movies. So he cut the 1976 thriller revenge from beyond the grave.

Folsey often worked on films by director John Landis as a producer and film editor, so at Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and The Blues Brothers (1980). In Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983 ) Folsey was involved as associate producer and was, as in July 1982 at night shooting two illegally employed as extras children and the actor Vic Morrow came by a helicopter accident, along with Landis and the other for manslaughter indicted. In May 1987, all the accused were acquitted.

2003 worked on Folsey Drama Basic - Behind every lie is a truth with. Also in the film, released in 2005, and its sequels Hostel Hostel 2 (2007) and Hostel 3 (2011) Folsey was responsible for the cut.

His son Ryan Folsey ( b. 1970 ) also works as a film editor.

Filmography (selection)

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