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name: "Arthur W. Forney"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/arthur-w-forney"
roles: ["Editor","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:17:24.512117+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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# Arthur W. Forney

Editor and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor, Director
- **Active:** 1982–1990
- **Also known as:** Arthur Forney
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 70 (1), 1990s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22680823, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286517/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1218026

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Arthur W. Forney is a producer, director and editor who has worked extensively with Dick Wolf's production company since the late 1980s. He began his career in post-production at Warner Bros. and later edited episodes of Magnum, P.I. before joining Wolf Entertainment, where he served as an editor on Law & Order (1990) and other early projects.

Forney progressed to producing roles across the Law & Order franchise and its spin-offs, and has directed more than thirty episodes of Wolf series since 1994, including multiple instalments of Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Chicago P.D., Chicago Fire and Chicago Med. He has also held executive producer positions on FBI, FBI: Most Wanted and Law & Order: Organized Crime. He heads post-production operations for Wolf Films.

*Sources: imdb.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Editor, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Fast Times at Ridgemont High* (1982), Fi1m 70, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/fast-times-at-ridgemont-high.md)

## Also known for

- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), Director, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Chicago Fire* (2012), Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *Chicago Med* (2015), Director, Executive Producer
- *FBI* (2018), Director, Executive Producer
- *FBI: Most Wanted* (2020), Executive Producer
- *JAG* (1995), Director
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), Director

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