---
name: "Carroll Timothy O'Meara"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carroll-timothy-omeara"
fi1m_id: "carroll-timothy-omeara"
imdb_id: "nm0641839"
tmdb_id: 46008
wikidata_id: "Q1045199"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "22 May 1943"
died: "16 May 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T19:51:52.056915+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."
---

# Carroll Timothy O'Meara

## Identity

Carroll Timothy O'Meara

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carroll-timothy-omeara
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** carroll-timothy-omeara
- **IMDb ID:** nm0641839
- **TMDB ID:** 46008
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1045199
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Timothy_O%27Meara, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1045199, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641839/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/46008

Editor. Born 22 May 1943 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. Died 16 May 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 22 May 1943, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
- **Died:** 16 May 2007
- **Active:** 1976–1986
- **Also known as:** C. Timothy O' Meara, Timothy O'Meara, Tim O'Meara
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 90 (1), 1980s 76 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $168m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Timothy_O%27Meara, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1045199, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641839/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/46008

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Conan the Barbarian*](https://film.one/film/conan-the-barbarian.md) (74)

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## Biography

Carroll Timothy O'Meara, also credited as C. Timothy O'Meara or Tim O'Meara, was an American film editor. He was born on 22 April 1943 in Sherman Oaks, California, and died on 16 May 2007 in Chatsworth, California.

O'Meara worked as an assistant editor on films including *Blazing Saddles* (1974) and *All the President's Men* (1976). He later edited *Big Wednesday* (1978), *The Rose* (1979), *Conan the Barbarian* (1982), *The Last Starfighter* (1984), *Hoosiers* (1986) and *Heavyweights* (1995), among many others. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for *The Rose* and won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the 1983 miniseries *The Thorn Birds*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Hoosiers* (1986), Fi1m 79, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/hoosiers.md)
- *Conan the Barbarian* (1982), Fi1m 74, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/conan-the-barbarian.md)
- *All the President's Men* (1976), Fi1m 90, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/all-the-presidents-men.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *Beethoven's 4th* (2001), Editor
- *The Marriage Fool* (1998), Editor
- *Music from Another Room* (1998), Editor
- *Bad Moon* (1996), Editor
- *The Grass Harp* (1996), Editor
- *The Arrival* (1996), Assistant Editor
- *Heavyweights* (1995), Editor
- *Blind Justice* (1994), Editor
- *The Last Outlaw* (1993), Editor
- *Malice* (1993), Associate Editor
- *V.I. Warshawski* (1991), Editor
- *Flight of the Intruder* (1991), Editor
- *Flashback* (1990), Editor
- *The Dream Team* (1989), Editor
- *The Abduction of Kari Swenson* (1987), Editor
- *Hoosiers* (1986), Editor — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/hoosiers.md)
- *My Science Project* (1985), Editor
- *The Last Starfighter* (1984), Editor
- *The Thorn Birds* (1983), series, Editor
- *Conan the Barbarian* (1982), Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/conan-the-barbarian.md)
- *Damien: The Leper Priest* (1980), Editor
- *Going in Style* (1979), Editor
- *The Rose* (1979), Editor
- *Big Wednesday* (1978), Editor
- *All the President's Men* (1976), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/all-the-presidents-men.md)
- *Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore* (1974), Assistant Editor
- *Blazing Saddles* (1974), Assistant Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1980: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Rose*

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

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