---
name: "Gib Jaffe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gib-jaffe"
fi1m_id: "gib-jaffe"
imdb_id: "nm0415445"
tmdb_id: 16568
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-04T19:41:52.066261+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."
---

# Gib Jaffe

## Identity

Gib Jaffe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gib-jaffe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gib-jaffe
- **IMDb ID:** nm0415445
- **TMDB ID:** 16568
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0415445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16568

Editor. Born in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1982–2004
- **Frequently works with:** [Frank E. Jimenez](https://film.one/person/frank-e-jimenez.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 76 (4), 2000s 83 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 76 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 2, Action & Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $231m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0415445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16568

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Battlestar Galactica*](https://film.one/tv/battlestar-galactica.md) (83)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Ruthless People*](https://film.one/film/ruthless-people.md) (77)

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

## Biography

Gib Jaffe is a film and television editor. A Los Angeles native, he studied political science and art at the University of California, Davis, before entering filmmaking. He began in documentaries and commercials, apprenticing under editor Carol Littleton, and later worked as an assistant editor on features such as *French Postcards* (1979) and *Rocky III* (1982).

Jaffe's editing credits include *Rambo: First Blood Part II* (1985), *Ruthless People* (1986), *They Live* (1988), *Rapid Fire* (1992) and *Battlestar Galactica* (2004). He produced and edited the documentary *Wings of the Wind*, which received four Emmy nominations. He joined the American Cinema Editors in 2007.

*Sources: imdb.com, youtube.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Battlestar Galactica* (2004), Fi1m 83, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/battlestar-galactica.md)
- *They Live* (1988), Fi1m 79, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/they-live.md)
- *Ruthless People* (1986), Fi1m 77, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/ruthless-people.md)
- *A Soldier's Story* (1984), Fi1m 76, Sound Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/a-soldiers-story.md)
- *Rocky III* (1982), Fi1m 70, First Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/rocky-iii.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Joan of Arc* (2022), Editor
- *Voices of Midway* (2015), Editor
- *Dark Desire* (2012), Editor
- *Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon* (2007), Editor
- *What If God Were the Sun?* (2007), Editor
- *Martha behind Bars* (2005), Editor
- *Dawn Anna* (2005), Editor
- *Moscow Heat* (2004), Editor
- *Battlestar Galactica* (2004), series, Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/battlestar-galactica.md)
- *Miracle Run* (2004), Editor
- *The Last Brickmaker in America* (2001), Editor
- *Dodson's Journey* (2001), Editor
- *Kidnapped in Paradise* (1999), Editor
- *The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn* (1999), Editor
- *Screw Loose* (1999), Editor
- *The Fumbleheads* (1997), Editor
- *An Occasional Hell* (1996), Editor
- *True Crime* (1995), Editor
- *Rapid Fire* (1992), Editor
- *Pyrates* (1991), Editor
- *Modern Love* (1990), Editor
- *They Live* (1988), Editor — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/they-live.md)
- *Pulse* (1988), Editor
- *Good to Go* (1986), Editor
- *Ruthless People* (1986), Editor — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/ruthless-people.md)
- *Rambo: First Blood Part II* (1985), Editor
- *A Soldier's Story* (1984), Sound Editor — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/a-soldiers-story.md)
- *Breakin'* (1984), Editor
- *Rocky III* (1982), First Assistant Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/rocky-iii.md)
- *Leon's Case* (1982), Editor
- *French Postcards* (1979), Assistant Editor

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