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name: "Clay Bartels"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/clay-bartels"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "30 December 1923"
died: "21 September 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:02.451463+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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# Clay Bartels

Editor. Born 30 December 1923 in California, USA. Died 21 September 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 30 December 1923, California, USA
- **Died:** 21 September 2013

## Biography

Clay Bartels was an American television editor. He worked on numerous series from the 1960s to the 1980s, including *Lost in Space* (1965), *Get Smart* (1965), *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), *Hill Street Blues* (1981) and *Hunter* (1984).

Bartels received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for a Series for his work on *Hill Street Blues* in 1981. He was born on 30 December 1923 in California and died on 21 September 2013 in Glendale, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, televisionacademy.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hill Street Blues* (1981), Fi1m 86, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/hill-street-blues.md)

## Also known for

- *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), Editor
- *Lost in Space* (1965), Editor
- *Hunter* (1984), Editor

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