---
name: "Harry Keramidas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-keramidas"
fi1m_id: "harry-keramidas"
imdb_id: "nm0004637"
tmdb_id: 1061
wikidata_id: "Q1586598"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 August 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T20:47:12.438724+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."
---

# Harry Keramidas

## Identity

Harry Keramidas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-keramidas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-keramidas
- **IMDb ID:** nm0004637
- **TMDB ID:** 1061
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1586598
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Keramidas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1586598, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004637/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1061

Editor. Born 1 August 1940 in Detroit, Michigan USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 August 1940, Detroit, Michigan USA
- **Active:** 1985–1997
- **Also known as:** Harold T. Keramidas, Harry Thomas Keramidas, Harry T. Keramidas, Harold Keramidas
- **Frequently works with:** [Bob Gale](https://film.one/person/bob-gale.md), [Christopher Lloyd](https://film.one/person/christopher-lloyd.md), [Lea Thompson](https://film.one/person/lea-thompson.md), [Michael J. Fox](https://film.one/person/michael-j-fox.md), [Neil Canton](https://film.one/person/neil-canton.md), [Robert Zemeckis](https://film.one/person/robert-zemeckis.md), [Thomas F. Wilson](https://film.one/person/thomas-f-wilson.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 83 (2), 1990s 76 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Science Fiction 3, Adventure 2, Comedy 2, Drama 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $885m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Keramidas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1586598, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004637/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1061

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Back to the Future*](https://film.one/film/back-to-the-future.md) (92)

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

## Biography

Harry Keramidas is an American film and television editor. Born in August 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, he studied at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, graduating with a degree in industrial psychology. He later attended UCLA Graduate Film School after service in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic.

Keramidas began his career editing documentaries and ethnographic films before joining the Motion Picture Editors Guild in 1977. He worked as a dialogue editor on Martin Scorsese’s *New York, New York* (1977) and moved into features and television. He is best known for co-editing the *Back to the Future* trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990) with Arthur Schmidt. Other credits include *Children of the Corn* (1984), *About Last Night...* (1986), *Judge Dredd* (1995) and additional editing on *Contact* (1997).

He has received a BAFTA nomination for editing and has chaired the Ashfield FilmFest in Massachusetts.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Contact* (1997), Fi1m 76, Additional Editing — [page](https://film.one/film/contact.md)
- *Back to the Future Part II* (1989), Fi1m 74, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/back-to-the-future-part-ii.md)
- *Back to the Future* (1985), Fi1m 92, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/back-to-the-future.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *Doc Brown Saves the World* (2015), Editor
- *The Final Season* (2007), Editor
- *The Sandlot 2* (2005), Editor
- *Deacons for Defense* (2005), Editor
- *Barely Legal* (2003), Editor
- *Tomcats* (2001), Editor
- *Beethoven's 3rd* (2000), Editor
- *Hoodlum* (1997), Editor
- *Contact* (1997), as Additional Editing — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/contact.md)
- *First Kid* (1996), Editor
- *Judge Dredd* (1995), Editor
- *Man of the House* (1995), Editor
- *Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman* (1994), Editor
- *The Favor* (1994), Editor
- *Passed Away* (1992), Editor
- *Back to the Future Part III* (1990), Editor
- *Back to the Future Part II* (1989), Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/back-to-the-future-part-ii.md)
- *Tales from the Crypt* (1989), series, Editor
- *Chances Are* (1989), Editor
- *Big Business* (1988), Editor
- *The Squeeze* (1987), Editor
- *About Last Night...* (1986), Editor
- *Back to the Future* (1985), Editor — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/back-to-the-future.md)
- *Children of the Corn* (1984), Editor
- *The Jerk, Too* (1984), Editor
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Editor
- *The Children Nobody Wanted* (1981), Editor
- *Bustin' Loose* (1981), Editor
- *Homeward Bound* (1980), Editor
- *Scared Straight! Another Story* (1980), Editor
- *Goldengirl* (1979), Editor
- *New York, New York* (1977), Sound Editor
- *Zoltan… Hound of Dracula* (1977), Editor
- *Crash!* (1976), Editor
- *Mansion of the Doomed* (1976), Editor
- *Massacre at Central High* (1976), Editor
- *Memory of Us* (1974), Editor

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