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name: "Carlos Savage"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carlos-savage"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "20 May 1919"
died: "29 September 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T12:28:32.907184+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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# Carlos Savage

Editor. Born 20 May 1919 in Mexico City, Mexico. Died 29 September 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 20 May 1919, Mexico City, Mexico
- **Died:** 29 September 2000
- **Also known as:** Carlos Savage Jr., Carlos Savaje, Carlos Savage hijo

## Biography

Carlos Savage was a Mexican film editor and actor. Born in Mexico City in 1919, he began his career in the late 1930s as an assistant editor to his uncle José Marino at México Films studios. He later worked at Estudios Nacional and received his first editing credit on *La rosa de Xochimilco* (1938).

Over a career spanning until 1995, Savage edited more than a thousand feature films, short films and documentaries. He was a frequent collaborator of director Luis Buñuel, working on films including *The Young and the Damned* (1950), *Él* (1953), *Robinson Crusoe* (1954), *Nazarín* (1959), *The Exterminating Angel* (1962) and *Simon of the Desert* (1965). He received multiple Ariel awards for editing and the Medalla Salvador Toscano in 1987. Savage also appeared as an actor, notably in *La hora de los niños* (1969).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Young and the Damned* (1950), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-young-and-the-damned.md)

## Also known for

- *The Exterminating Angel* (1962), Editor
- *Simon of the Desert* (1965), Editor
- *Él* (1953), Editor
- *Nazarín* (1959), Editor
- *Poison for the Fairies* (1986), Editor
- *Robinson Crusoe* (1954), Editor
- *The Book of Stone* (1969), Editor
- *Por mis pistolas* (1968), Editor

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