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name: "James E. Newcom"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-e-newcom"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "29 August 1905"
died: "6 October 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T16:01:16.690861+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."
---

# James E. Newcom

Editor. Born 29 August 1905 in Wayne, Indiana, USA. Died 6 October 1990.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 29 August 1905, Wayne, Indiana, USA
- **Died:** 6 October 1990
- **Also known as:** James Newcom

## Biography

James E. Newcom (also credited as James Newcom) was an American film editor whose career spanned from 1933 to 1970. He worked on more than 40 feature films, often in supervisory or associate roles early on, and later as editor or supervising editor on major productions.

Newcom received an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for *Gone with the Wind* (1939), shared with Hal C. Kern. He earned further nominations in the same category for *Since You Went Away* (1944, shared with Kern), *Annie Get Your Gun* (1950) and *Tora! Tora! Tora!* (1970, shared with Inoue Chikaya and Pembroke J. Herring). His credits include *Rebecca* (1940), *Scaramouche* (1952), *Westward the Women* (1951) and one episode of the television series *The Fugitive* (1963).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Fugitive* (1963), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fugitive-1963.md)

## Also known for

- *Gone with the Wind* (1939), Associate Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-with-the-wind.md)
- *Rebecca* (1940), Associate Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/rebecca.md)
- *Tora! Tora! Tora!* (1970), Editor
- *A Star Is Born* (1937), Editor
- *Nothing Sacred* (1937), Editor
- *Scaramouche* (1952), Editor
- *Annie Get Your Gun* (1950), Editor
- *Westward the Women* (1951), Editor

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