Donn Cambern, the editor of the Oscar-nominated movie Romancing the Stone, as well as Easy Rider, The Last Picture Show, and Ghostbusters II, passed away on Wednesday, according to his family, who also served as president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild for many years. He was 93.
Cambern was born in Los Angeles on October 9, 1929, and comes from a show business family.
His mother played harp for the RKO Pictures orchestra on movie soundtracks like Top Hat, while his father worked in the music publishing industry. After earning his UCLA degree in 1952, he was hired as a messenger by Disney.
He started his career in television in the 1960s, working as a music editor on numerous episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and its spinoff Gomer Pyle, USMC, as well as I Spy, That Girl, The Ghost, and Mrs. Muir.
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By the late 1960s, Cambern had switched to making movies, and one of his first efforts was the legendary 1969 counterculture road trip film Easy Rider, directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and others.
The Last Picture Show, a 1970 Best Picture Oscar contender directed by Peter Bogdanovich, was his second project after editing the Nicholson-directed Drive, He Said.
Donn Cambern’s family has not yet disclosed the location of his grave. As we provide the most recent updates, keep an eye on this page. In this trying time, our thoughts are with the family and loved ones.
