---
name: "Bill Pankow"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-pankow"
fi1m_id: "bill-pankow"
imdb_id: "nm0659597"
tmdb_id: 1264
wikidata_id: "Q4910422"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-20T10:25:26.750157+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."
---

# Bill Pankow

## Identity

Bill Pankow

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bill-pankow
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bill-pankow
- **IMDb ID:** nm0659597
- **TMDB ID:** 1264
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4910422
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pankow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4910422, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659597/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1264

Editor. Born 1 January 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1952, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1979–2006
- **Also known as:** William Pankow
- **Frequently works with:** [Brian De Palma](https://film.one/person/brian-de-palma.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 82 (1), 1980s 81 (1), 1990s 86 (1), 2000s 65 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 72 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Crime 4, Thriller 4, Drama 3, History 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $313m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pankow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4910422, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659597/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1264

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Carlito's Way*](https://film.one/film/carlitos-way.md) (86), [*Femme Fatale*](https://film.one/film/femme-fatale.md) (74)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Untouchables*](https://film.one/film/the-untouchables.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Bill Pankow is an American film editor. He graduated from NYU Film School in 1974 and began his career in assistant and associate editor roles, including on Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and early Brian De Palma films.

Pankow has edited ten films for director Brian De Palma, beginning with Body Double (1984) and including The Untouchables (1987), Carlito's Way (1993), Snake Eyes (1998), Femme Fatale (2002) and The Black Dahlia (2006). For Femme Fatale he received the Seattle Film Critics Society award for best editing. He is a member of the American Cinema Editors.

Other credits include work with Abel Ferrara on The Funeral (1996), Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers (1990), and films such as Gifted (2017), Let's Be Cops (2014) and American Ultra (2015).

*Sources: mewshop.com, en.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Black Dahlia* (2006), Fi1m 56, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-black-dahlia.md)
- *Femme Fatale* (2002), Fi1m 74, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/femme-fatale.md)
- *Carlito's Way* (1993), Fi1m 86, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/carlitos-way.md)
- *The Untouchables* (1987), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-untouchables.md)
- *Kramer vs. Kramer* (1979), Fi1m 82, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/kramer-vs-kramer.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

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

- *Domino* (2019), Editor
- *Gifted* (2017), Editor
- *American Ultra* (2015), Editor
- *Max* (2015), Editor
- *The Harvest* (2015), Editor
- *Let's Be Cops* (2014), as Police Captain · Editor
- *The East* (2013), Editor
- *Greetings from Tim Buckley* (2013), Editor
- *Trespass* (2011), Editor
- *Letters to Juliet* (2010), Editor
- *Mesrine: Public Enemy #1* (2008), Editor
- *Redacted* (2007), Editor
- *Feel The Noise* (2007), Editor
- *The Black Dahlia* (2006), Editor — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/the-black-dahlia.md)
- *Assault on Precinct 13* (2005), Editor
- *Mr. 3000* (2004), Editor
- *Drumline* (2002), Editor
- *Paid in Full* (2002), Editor
- *Femme Fatale* (2002), Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/femme-fatale.md)
- *'R Xmas* (2001), Editor
- *Once in the Life* (2000), Editor
- *Snake Eyes* (1998), Editor
- *Double Team* (1997), Editor
- *Maximum Risk* (1996), Editor
- *The Funeral* (1996), Editor
- *Money Train* (1995), Editor
- *Let It Be Me* (1995), Editor
- *Carlito's Way* (1993), Editor — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/carlitos-way.md)
- *Naked in New York* (1993), Editor
- *Whispers in the Dark* (1992), Editor
- *The Bonfire of the Vanities* (1990), Editor
- *The Comfort of Strangers* (1990), Editor
- *Casualties of War* (1989), Editor
- *Parents* (1989), Editor
- *The Untouchables* (1987), Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-untouchables.md)
- *The Equalizer* (1985), series, Editor
- *Body Double* (1984), Editor
- *Tales from the Darkside* (1984), series, Editor
- *Still of the Night* (1982), Editor
- *Dressed to Kill* (1980), Associate Editor
- *Kramer vs. Kramer* (1979), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/kramer-vs-kramer.md)

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