---
name: "David Saxon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-saxon"
fi1m_id: "david-saxon"
imdb_id: "nm0768320"
tmdb_id: 3455
wikidata_id: "Q93649175"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "23 June 1927"
died: "5 July 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:10:39.130412+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."
---

# David Saxon

## Identity

David Saxon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-saxon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-saxon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0768320
- **TMDB ID:** 3455
- **Wikidata ID:** Q93649175
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93649175, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768320/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3455

Editor. Born 23 June 1927 in Brooklyn, New York,  USA. Died 5 July 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 23 June 1927, Brooklyn, New York,  USA
- **Died:** 5 July 2016
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93649175, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768320/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3455

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory*](https://film.one/film/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory.md) (82)

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## Biography

David Saxon was an American film and television editor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 23 June 1927, he served as a photographer in the US Army during the Second World War before studying at UCLA. He began his professional career in the 1950s editing commercials and joined the Editors Guild in 1957.

Saxon had a long association with producer David L. Wolper, editing numerous documentaries for National Geographic Specials as well as the feature films *If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium* (1969) and *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* (1971). He later worked on television series including *Hill Street Blues*, *MacGyver* and the miniseries *North and South* (1985). Saxon received an Emmy Award and several ACE Awards for his editing.

He patented a multiple-image filming process known as Multi-Vision, first used in the 1968 television special *Movin’ with Nancy*. Saxon died in Los Angeles on 5 July 2016.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* (1971), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *A Girl of the Limberlost* (1990), Editor
- *When We Were Young* (1989), Editor
- *Onassis: The Richest Man in the World* (1988), Editor
- *North and South* (1985), series, Editor
- *MacGyver* (1985), series, Editor
- *Sparkling Cyanide* (1983), Editor
- *The Thorn Birds* (1983), series, Editor
- *Baby Comes Home* (1980), Editor
- *The Living Sands of Namib* (1978), Director
- *National Geographic: The Volga* (1977), Editor
- *Victory at Entebbe* (1976), Editor
- *One Is a Lonely Number* (1972), Editor
- *Appointment With Destiny* (1971), series, Editor
- *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* (1971), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory.md)
- *I Love My Wife* (1970), Editor
- *Zoos of the World* (1970), Editor
- *If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium* (1969), Editor
- *The Angry Breed* (1968), Editor
- *La Collection Cousteau N° 1 | Le Grand Requin Blanc | Les Requins Dormeurs Du Yucatan*, Co-Director

## Awards

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won

- 1972: Primetime Emmy Award (won)

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

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