---
name: "Geoffrey Foot"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geoffrey-foot"
fi1m_id: "geoffrey-foot"
imdb_id: "nm0285188"
tmdb_id: 33100
wikidata_id: "Q980695"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "19 May 1915"
died: "9 September 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:35:45.768537+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."
---

# Geoffrey Foot

## Identity

Geoffrey Foot

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geoffrey-foot
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geoffrey-foot
- **IMDb ID:** nm0285188
- **TMDB ID:** 33100
- **Wikidata ID:** Q980695
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Foot_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q980695, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285188/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33100

Editor. Born 19 May 1915 in Putney, Wandsworth, London, England, UK. Died 9 September 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 19 May 1915, Putney, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 9 September 2010
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Foot_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q980695, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285188/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33100

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Prisoner*](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md) (84)

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## Biography

Geoffrey Foot was a British film editor. Born in Putney, London, he began his career at Ealing Studios in the camera department and later worked as an assistant editor. He became a full editor after the Second World War and maintained a long association with director David Lean.

Foot edited *The Passionate Friends* (1949), *Madeleine* (1950) and *The Sound Barrier* (1952) for Lean, as well as Disney productions and international features including *The Long Ships* (1964) and *Genghis Khan* (1965). In 1967 he served as supervising editor on the television series *The Prisoner*, receiving credit on four episodes. He was a co-founder of the Guild of British Film Editors and continued working into the 1980s on films such as *The Watcher in the Woods* (1980).

Foot died in London on 9 September 2010.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, the-independent.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Prisoner* (1967), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

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

- *The Watcher in the Woods* (1980), Editor
- *Sunburn* (1979), Editor
- *Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse* (1978), Editor
- *Confessions from a Holiday Camp* (1977), Editor
- *Confessions of a Driving Instructor* (1976), Editor
- *Confessions of a Pop Performer* (1975), Editor
- *The Legend of Hell House* (1973), Editor
- *Death Line* (1972), Editor
- *Man in the Wilderness* (1971), Editor
- *Eyewitness* (1970), Editor
- *Run Wild, Run Free* (1969), Editor
- *Hammerhead* (1968), Editor
- *The Prisoner* (1967), series, Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)
- *The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery* (1966), Editor
- *The Yellow Hat* (1966), Editor
- *Genghis Khan* (1965), Editor
- *The Long Ships* (1964), Editor
- *Stolen Hours* (1963), Editor
- *Postman's Knock* (1962), Editor
- *Johnny Nobody* (1961), Editor
- *Mr. Topaze* (1961), Editor
- *The Trials of Oscar Wilde* (1960), Editor
- *Killers of Kilimanjaro* (1959), Editor
- *The Bridal Path* (1959), Editor
- *Left Right and Centre* (1959), Supervising Editor
- *Scotland* (1958), Director
- *Wales* (1958), Director
- *Another Time, Another Place* (1958), Editor
- *Blue Murder at St. Trinian's* (1957), Editor
- *Fortune Is a Woman* (1957), Editor
- *Value for Money* (1955), Editor
- *One Good Turn* (1955), Editor
- *Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue* (1953), Editor
- *Innocents in Paris* (1953), Editor
- *The Sound Barrier* (1952), Editor
- *The Galloping Major* (1951), Editor
- *Madeleine* (1950), Editor
- *The Passionate Friends* (1949), Editor
- *Blanche Fury* (1948), Associate Editor
- *Take My Life* (1947), Editor
- *They Flew Alone* (1942), Editor
- *Sing As We Go* (1934), Assistant Editor

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