---
name: "Geoffrey Rowland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geoffrey-rowland"
fi1m_id: "geoffrey-rowland"
imdb_id: "nm0746697"
tmdb_id: 23488
wikidata_id: "Q139419790"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "17 December 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-23T13:19:20.033297+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 Rowland

## Identity

Geoffrey Rowland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geoffrey-rowland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geoffrey-rowland
- **IMDb ID:** nm0746697
- **TMDB ID:** 23488
- **Wikidata ID:** Q139419790
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139419790, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746697/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23488

Editor. Born 17 December 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 17 December 1946, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Active:** 1976–1999
- **Also known as:** Geoff Rowland, Geofrey Rowland
- **Frequently works with:** [Marita Grabiak](https://film.one/person/marita-grabiak.md), [Alan J. Levi](https://film.one/person/alan-j-levi.md), [Christopher Misiano](https://film.one/person/christopher-misiano.md), [Daniel Sackheim](https://film.one/person/daniel-sackheim.md), [Darnell Martin](https://film.one/person/darnell-martin.md), [David Grossman](https://film.one/person/david-grossman.md), [Donna Deitch](https://film.one/person/donna-deitch.md), [Elodie Keene](https://film.one/person/elodie-keene.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 85 (2), 1990s 84 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 82 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, Science Fiction 1, Sport 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $424m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139419790, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746697/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23488

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*ER*](https://film.one/tv/er.md) (88), [*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Geoffrey Rowland is a Canadian film and television editor. Born on 17 December 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began his career in the 1970s as an assistant editor on feature films including *Rocky* (1976) and *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* (1977).

He has edited numerous television series, among them *Cagney & Lacey*, *Moonlighting*, *ER*, *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* and four episodes of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), including the two-hour pilot. His feature film credits include *The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising* (2007), *The Stoning of Soraya M.* (2009) and *The Young Messiah* (2016). Rowland received a Primetime Emmy Award for editing the miniseries *The Path to 9/11* (2006), along with an American Cinema Editors Award for the same project and further nominations and wins for other programmes.

*Sources: imdb.com, app.productionbeast.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md)
- *ER* (1994), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md)
- *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* (1977), Fi1m 85, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind.md)
- *Rocky* (1976), Fi1m 85, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/rocky.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

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

- *Beyond the Blackboard* (2011), Editor
- *The Stoning of Soraya M.* (2009), Editor
- *Loving Leah* (2009), Editor
- *The Russell Girl* (2008), Editor
- *The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising* (2007), Editor
- *The Path to 9/11* (2006), series, Editor
- *After...* (2006), Editor
- *NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323* (2004), Editor
- *Hollywood Wives: The New Generation* (2003), Editor
- *The Stranger Beside Me* (2003), Editor
- *The Music Man* (2003), Editor
- *Flowers for Algernon* (2000), Editor
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, Editor
- *Rear Window* (1998), Editor
- *The Advocate's Devil* (1997), Editor
- *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), series, Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md)
- *Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story* (1996), Editor
- *Co-ed Call Girl* (1996), Editor
- *Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story* (1995), Editor
- *Cagney & Lacey: The Return* (1994), Editor
- *ER* (1994), series, Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md)
- *Love on the Run* (1994), Editor
- *Burke's Law* (1994), series, Editor
- *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday* (1993), Additional Editor
- *Dying to Love You* (1993), Editor
- *Terror on Track 9* (1992), Editor
- *Dolly Dearest* (1991), Editor
- *The Kissing Place* (1990), Editor
- *Sorry, Wrong Number* (1989), Editor
- *The Three Kings* (1987), Editor
- *Cracked Up* (1987), Editor
- *Stagecoach* (1986), Editor
- *White Water Rebels* (1983), Editor
- *Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws* (1978), Editor
- *Colorado C.I.* (1978), Editor
- *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* (1977), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind.md)
- *American Raspberry* (1977), Editor
- *Rocky* (1976), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/rocky.md)

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