---
name: "Christopher Koefoed"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christopher-koefoed"
fi1m_id: "christopher-koefoed"
imdb_id: "nm0462723"
tmdb_id: 57779
roles: ["Assistant editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-04T21:36:22.661675+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."
---

# Christopher Koefoed

## Identity

Christopher Koefoed

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christopher-koefoed
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christopher-koefoed
- **IMDb ID:** nm0462723
- **TMDB ID:** 57779
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57779

Assistant editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant editor
- **Active:** 1982–1993
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 78 (2), 1990s 68 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 62 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 4, Adventure 2, Drama 2, Science Fiction 2, Action 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $389m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57779

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Menace II Society*](https://film.one/film/menace-ii-society.md) (82)

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

## Biography

Christopher Koefoed is a film editor. Born in 1951, he began his career in the late 1970s as an apprentice editor on *North Dallas Forty* (1979) and worked as an assistant editor on studio productions including *Urban Cowboy* (1980), *Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan* (1982), *The Stepfather* (1987), *Young Guns* (1988) and *The Abyss* (1989).

He advanced to lead editor credits from 1990, with *Genuine Risk* (1990) among his first. His editing work includes *Menace II Society* (1993), *Gridlock'd* (1997) and a number of independent and direct-to-video features through the early 2000s, as well as the documentary *Slippin': Ten Years with the Bloods* (2005). He has also written for television.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Menace II Society* (1993), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/menace-ii-society.md)
- *Sleeping with the Enemy* (1991), Fi1m 54, Associate Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/sleeping-with-the-enemy.md)
- *The Abyss* (1989), Fi1m 71, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-abyss.md)
- *Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan* (1982), Fi1m 85, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Sol Goode* (2003), Editor
- *Tropix* (2002), Editor
- *Love and a Bullet* (2002), Editor
- *Playing with Fire* (2000), Writer
- *Rough Draft* (1998), Editor
- *Gridlock'd* (1997), Editor
- *Tinseltown* (1997), Editor
- *Menace II Society* (1993), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/menace-ii-society.md)
- *Sunset Heat* (1992), Editor
- *Sleeping with the Enemy* (1991), Associate Editor — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/sleeping-with-the-enemy.md)
- *The Abyss* (1989), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-abyss.md)
- *Young Guns* (1988), Assistant Editor
- *The Stepfather* (1987), Assistant Editor
- *Fast Forward* (1985), Assistant Editor
- *Uncommon Valor* (1983), Assistant Editor
- *Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan* (1982), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan.md)

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