---
name: "Aaron Stell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aaron-stell"
fi1m_id: "aaron-stell"
imdb_id: "nm0824473"
tmdb_id: 8484
wikidata_id: "Q14920558"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "26 March 1911"
died: "7 January 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T08:12:13.308387+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aaron Stell

## Identity

Aaron Stell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aaron-stell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aaron-stell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0824473
- **TMDB ID:** 8484
- **Wikidata ID:** Q14920558
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Stell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14920558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824473/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8484

Editor. Born 26 March 1911 in Pennsylvania, USA. Died 7 January 1996.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 26 March 1911, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 7 January 1996
- **Active:** 1958–1972
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 88 (1), 1960s 84 (1), 1970s 76 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 82 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Science Fiction 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $15m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Stell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14920558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824473/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8484

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Touch of Evil*](https://film.one/film/touch-of-evil.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Aaron Stell (26 March 1911 – 7 January 1996) was an American film editor. Born in Pennsylvania, he graduated from Los Angeles High School and began working in the film industry in the late 1920s before starting his editing career at Columbia Pictures in 1943.

He accumulated over one hundred feature film credits and extensive television work. Stell is best known for editing *Touch of Evil* (1958), *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1962) and *Silent Running* (1972). He was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for *To Kill a Mockingbird* and shared the organisation’s Career Achievement Award in 1996. He also directed the feature *The Gallant One* (1964).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Silent Running* (1972), Fi1m 76, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/silent-running.md)
- *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1962), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/to-kill-a-mockingbird.md)
- *Touch of Evil* (1958), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/touch-of-evil.md)

## Complete filmography (93)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Native Son* (1986), Editor
- *A Question of Honor* (1982), Editor
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Editor
- *Incident at Crestridge* (1981), Editor
- *Isabel's Choice* (1981), Editor
- *My Kidnapper, My Love* (1980), Editor
- *Rage!* (1980), Editor
- *Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones* (1980), series, Editor
- *Orphan Train* (1979), Editor
- *Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story* (1979), Editor
- *Steel Cowboy* (1978), Editor
- *One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story* (1978), Editor
- *Spider-Man* (1977), Editor
- *The Amazing Howard Hughes* (1977), Editor
- *The Amazing Howard Hughes* (1977), series, Editor
- *The Displaced Person* (1977), Editor
- *Night Terror* (1977), Editor
- *The Killer Inside Me* (1976), Editor
- *One of My Wives Is Missing* (1976), Editor
- *The Four Deuces* (1975), Editor
- *Shell Game* (1975), Editor
- *The Trial of Chaplain Jensen* (1975), Editor
- *Willie Dynamite* (1974), Editor
- *Fade In* (1973), Editor
- *Your Three Minutes Are Up* (1973), Editor
- *The Couple Takes a Wife* (1972), Editor
- *The Trial of the Catonsville Nine* (1972), Editor
- *Silent Running* (1972), Editor — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/silent-running.md)
- *Crowhaven Farm* (1970), Editor
- *Wild Women* (1970), Editor
- *But I Don't Want to Get Married!* (1970), Editor
- *The Grasshopper* (1970), Editor
- *Flareup* (1969), Editor
- *The Stalking Moon* (1968), Editor
- *Welcome to Hard Times* (1967), Editor
- *Not With My Wife, You Don't!* (1966), Editor
- *Inside Daisy Clover* (1966), Editor
- *Baby the Rain Must Fall* (1965), Editor
- *The Gallant One* (1964), Director
- *Love with the Proper Stranger* (1963), Editor
- *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1962), Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/to-kill-a-mockingbird.md)
- *Six Black Horses* (1962), Editor
- *The Secret Ways* (1961), Editor
- *My Dog, Buddy* (1960), Editor
- *Wake Me When It's Over* (1960), Editor
- *The Killer Shrews* (1959), Editor
- *The Giant Gila Monster* (1959), Editor
- *Lonelyhearts* (1959), Editor
- *The Proud Rebel* (1958), Editor
- *Touch of Evil* (1958), Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/touch-of-evil.md)
- *Time Limit* (1957), Editor
- *Beginning of the End* (1957), Editor
- *Fear Strikes Out* (1957), Editor
- *5 Steps to Danger* (1956), Editor
- *The Bold and the Brave* (1956), Editor
- *Creature with the Atom Brain* (1955), Editor
- *Human Desire* (1954), Editor
- *The Law vs. Billy the Kid* (1954), Editor
- *Massacre Canyon* (1954), Editor
- *The Juggler* (1953), Editor
- *Ambush at Tomahawk Gap* (1953), Editor
- *Jack McCall, Desperado* (1953), Editor
- *Eight Iron Men* (1952), Editor
- *He Cooked His Goose* (1952), Editor
- *Brave Warrior* (1952), Editor
- *The Sniper* (1952), Editor
- *Corny Casanovas* (1952), Editor
- *The Barefoot Mailman* (1951), Editor
- *The Big Gusher* (1951), Editor
- *Gasoline Alley* (1951), Editor
- *Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard* (1950), Editor
- *The Tougher They Come* (1950), Editor
- *The Palomino* (1950), Editor
- *Blondie's Hero* (1950), Editor
- *The Soundman* (1950), Director, Editor
- *Rim of the Canyon* (1949), Editor
- *The Lost Tribe* (1949), Editor
- *Riders of the Whistling Pines* (1949), Editor
- *Jungle Jim* (1948), Editor
- *The Sign of the Ram* (1948), Editor
- *The Last Round-up* (1947), Editor
- *The Son of Rusty* (1947), Editor
- *Bulldog Drummond at Bay* (1947), Editor
- *Millie's Daughter* (1947), Editor
- *Alias Mr. Twilight* (1946), Editor
- *Blondie Knows Best* (1946), Editor
- *Blondie's Lucky Day* (1946), Editor
- *Blazing the Western Trail* (1945), Editor
- *Boston Blackie's Rendezvous* (1945), Editor
- *I Love a Mystery* (1945), Editor
- *Cyclone Prairie Rangers* (1944), Editor
- *Swing in the Saddle* (1944), Editor
- *She's a Soldier Too* (1944), Editor

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