---
name: "Ian Rakoff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ian-rakoff"
fi1m_id: "ian-rakoff"
tmdb_id: 1220996
roles: ["Assistant editor"]
born: "28 July 1939"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T05:27:19.272214+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."
---

# Ian Rakoff

## Identity

Ian Rakoff

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ian-rakoff
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ian-rakoff
- **TMDB ID:** 1220996
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220996

Assistant editor. Born 28 July 1939 in South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant editor
- **Born:** 28 July 1939, South Africa
- **Active:** 1967–1972
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 writing, 2 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 83 (2), 1970s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220996

## Streaming the US now

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

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

## Biography

Ian Rakoff is a film editor, screenwriter and author. Born in South Africa in 1939, he moved to the United Kingdom and began working in the film industry in the 1960s.

He served as assistant editor on Lindsay Anderson’s *if....* (1968) and John Boorman’s *Deliverance* (1972). Rakoff also worked as assistant editor on the television series *The Prisoner* (1967) and wrote the episode 'Living in Harmony' (1968).

He has collaborated with directors including Stephen Frears and Nicolas Roeg, and is the author of the book *Inside the Prisoner: Radical Television and Film in the 1960s* (1998). Rakoff is a noted collector of American comics, with a significant collection acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Wrote (1)

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

### Crew (2) — the average rests on these

- *Deliverance* (1972), Fi1m 85, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/deliverance.md)
- *if....* (1968), Fi1m 82, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/if-1968.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *The Flight of the Eagle* (1982), Screenplay
- *Sam's Song* (1979), Editor
- *Deliverance* (1972), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/deliverance.md)
- *if....* (1968), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/if-1968.md)
- *The Prisoner* (1967), series, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)

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