---
name: "Brian Berdan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-berdan"
fi1m_id: "brian-berdan"
imdb_id: "nm0002644"
tmdb_id: 3189
wikidata_id: "Q3644434"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T17:51:28.458297+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."
---

# Brian Berdan

## Identity

Brian Berdan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brian-berdan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brian-berdan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0002644
- **TMDB ID:** 3189
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3644434
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Berdan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3644434, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002644/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3189

Editor. Born 1 January 2000 in Michigan.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, Michigan
- **Active:** 1990–1997
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 70 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 3, Crime 2, Drama 2, Romance 2, Action 1, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $156m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Berdan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3644434, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002644/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3189

## Biography

Brian Berdan is an American film editor. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 1984, he began working in post-production at Lucasfilm and apprenticed on David Lynch's *Blue Velvet* before taking additional and assistant editing roles on films including *Wild at Heart* and *Noises Off*.

Stone gave Berdan his first editing credit on *Natural Born Killers* (1994). He went on to edit *Nixon* (1995) and *U Turn* (1997) for the director, as well as *Grosse Pointe Blank* (1997), *Crank* (2006), *Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance* (2011), *The Boy* (2016) and *Underwater* (2020). He received an Emmy nomination for additional editing on the 2017 revival of *Twin Peaks*.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Grosse Pointe Blank* (1997), Fi1m 55, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/grosse-pointe-blank.md)
- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Fi1m 64, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), Fi1m 86, Additional Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)
- *Wild at Heart* (1990), Fi1m 78, First Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/wild-at-heart.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *Trust Me, I'm a Doctor* (2026), Editor
- *JFK: Destiny Betrayed* (2021), series, Editor
- *JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass* (2021), Editor
- *Separation* (2021), Editor
- *Brahms: The Boy II* (2020), Editor
- *Underwater* (2020), Editor
- *Crypto* (2019), Editor
- *Song to Song* (2017), Editor
- *The Boy* (2016), Editor
- *Rosemary's Baby* (2014), series, Editor
- *The Signal* (2014), Editor
- *Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance* (2011), Editor
- *5 Days of War* (2011), Editor
- *Love* (2011), Editor
- *12 Rounds* (2009), Editor
- *Outsourced* (2007), Editor
- *Cleaner* (2007), Editor
- *Crank* (2006), Editor
- *Domino* (2005), Additional Editor
- *The Cave* (2005), Editor
- *The Big Bounce* (2004), Editor
- *The Mothman Prophecies* (2002), Editor
- *Finder's Fee* (2001), Editor
- *Auggie Rose* (2000), Editor
- *The Book of Stars* (1999), Editor
- *The Thirteenth Year* (1999), Editor
- *Around the Fire* (1998), Editor
- *Smoke Signals* (1998), Editor
- *The Sadness of Sex* (1998), Editor
- *Amanda & the Alien* (1998), Editor
- *Grosse Pointe Blank* (1997), Editor — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/grosse-pointe-blank.md)
- *Nixon* (1995), Editor
- *The Net* (1995), Editor
- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *Wild at Heart* (1990), First Assistant Editor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/wild-at-heart.md)
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), series, Additional Editor — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)
- *Rented Lips* (1988), as Additional Editing

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