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name: "Albert Jurgenson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/albert-jurgenson"
fi1m_id: "albert-jurgenson"
imdb_id: "nm0432926"
tmdb_id: 11198
wikidata_id: "Q2577191"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "4 June 1929"
died: "12 June 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:41:36.180020+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."
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# Albert Jurgenson

## Identity

Albert Jurgenson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/albert-jurgenson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** albert-jurgenson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0432926
- **TMDB ID:** 11198
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2577191
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2577191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432926/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11198

Editor. Born 4 June 1929 in Paris, France. Died 12 June 2002.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 4 June 1929, Paris, France
- **Died:** 12 June 2002
- **Also known as:** Albert Louis Jurgenson
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2577191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432926/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11198

## Biography

Albert Jurgenson (also credited as Albert Louis Jurgenson) was a French film editor and occasional screenwriter. Born in Paris on 4 June 1929, he died there on 12 June 2002.

He edited numerous French feature films from the 1960s to the 1990s, including many popular comedies directed by Gérard Oury such as *The Sucker* (1965), *Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!* (1966) and *The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob* (1973), as well as works by Alain Resnais including *Providence* (1977) and *Smoking/No Smoking* (1993). He also edited the documentary *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie* (1988). Jurgenson received two César Awards for Best Editing, for *Providence* (1978) and *The Inquisitor* (1982).

He taught film editing at La Fémis and co-authored the book *Pratique du montage* (1990).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie* (1988), Fi1m 89, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/hotel-terminus-the-life-and-times-of-klaus-barbie.md)

## Complete filmography (69)

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

- *Smoking / No Smoking* (1993), Editor
- *The Accompanist* (1992), Editor
- *La nuit de l'océan* (1992), Editor
- *Robert's Movie* (1992), Editor
- *The Tribe* (1991), Editor
- *November Days* (1991), Editor
- *Le grand paysage d'Alexis Droeven* (1990), as Additional Writing
- *Vanille fraise* (1989), Editor
- *I Want to Go Home* (1989), Editor
- *The Little Thief* (1988), Editor
- *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie* (1988), Editor — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/hotel-terminus-the-life-and-times-of-klaus-barbie.md)
- *The Abyss* (1988), Editor
- *Hôtel de France* (1987), Editor
- *Mélo* (1986), Editor
- *An Impudent Girl* (1985), Editor
- *Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart* (1985), Editor
- *Beethoven's Nephew* (1985), Editor
- *The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent* (1984), Editor
- *Love Unto Death* (1984), Editor
- *Dog Day* (1984), Editor
- *The Outsider* (1983), Editor
- *Benvenuta* (1983), Editor
- *Life Is a Bed of Roses* (1983), Editor
- *Deadly Circuit* (1983), Editor
- *Ace of Aces* (1982), Editor
- *Spy, Stand Up* (1982), Editor
- *La Chèvre* (1981), Editor
- *The Inquisitor* (1981), Editor
- *The Boy Soldier* (1981), Editor
- *Umbrella Coup* (1980), Editor
- *My American Uncle* (1980), Editor
- *La Femme flic* (1980), Editor
- *The Adolescent* (1979), Editor
- *Out of It* (1978), Editor
- *Faces of Love* (1977), Editor
- *The Purple Taxi* (1977), Editor
- *Providence* (1977), Editor
- *Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff* (1977), Editor
- *Lumière* (1976), Editor
- *Mad Enough to Kill* (1975), Editor
- *The Common Man* (1975), Editor
- *Stavisky...* (1974), Editor
- *The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob* (1973), Editor
- *Impossible Object* (1973), Editor
- *The Assassination* (1972), Editor
- *Delusions of Grandeur* (1971), Editor
- *Angel's Leap* (1971), Editor
- *The Cop* (1970), Editor
- *King Lear* (1970), Editor
- *The Brain* (1969), Editor
- *Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime* (1968), Editor
- *The Little Bather* (1968), Editor, Screenplay
- *Far from Vietnam* (1967), Editor
- *Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!* (1966), Editor
- *The Defector* (1966), Editor
- *Four Queens for an Ace* (1966), Editor
- *The Gendarme in New York* (1965), Editor
- *Under Your Hat* (1965), Editor
- *The Sucker* (1965), Editor
- *Chicken Feed for Little Birds* (1963), Editor
- *The American Beauty* (1961), Editor
- *Please, Not Now!* (1961), Editor
- *The Truth* (1960), Editor
- *America as Seen by a Frenchman* (1960), Editor
- *Seven Days… Seven Nights* (1960), Editor
- *The Big Risk* (1960), Editor
- *The Cheaters* (1958), Editor
- *The Overworked* (1958), Editor
- *Le grand sud* (1956), Editor

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- César Award for Best Editing 1982: César Award for Best Editing (won), for *The Inquisitor*
- César Award for Best Editing 1978: César Award for Best Editing (won), for *Providence*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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