---
name: "James Palumbo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-palumbo"
fi1m_id: "james-palumbo"
imdb_id: "nm0658860"
tmdb_id: 40138
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T14:00:08.484166+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 Palumbo

## Identity

James Palumbo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/james-palumbo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** james-palumbo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0658860
- **TMDB ID:** 40138
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658860/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40138

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 2002–2016
- **Also known as:** James M. Palumbo
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 2 acting, 3 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Denis Leary](https://film.one/person/denis-leary.md), [John Leguizamo](https://film.one/person/john-leguizamo.md), [Lori Forte](https://film.one/person/lori-forte.md), [Michael Berg](https://film.one/person/michael-berg.md), [Mike Thurmeier](https://film.one/person/michael-thurmeier.md), [Patrick Worlock](https://film.one/person/patrick-worlock.md), [Ray Romano](https://film.one/person/ray-romano.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 64 (3), 2010s 45 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 56 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 3, Comedy 3, Family 3, Adventure 2, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,532m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658860/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40138

## Coming up

- *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027-01-28), Editor

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Ice Age: Continental Drift*](https://film.one/film/ice-age-continental-drift.md) (53), [*Ice Age: Collision Course*](https://film.one/film/ice-age-collision-course.md) (37)

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

## Biography

James Palumbo is a film editor, also credited as James M. Palumbo. He has worked extensively in the editorial department at Blue Sky Studios on the Ice Age franchise and related projects.

His credits include assistant editor on *Ice Age* (2002) and *Robots* (2005), co-editor on *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), and editor on *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), *Ice Age: Collision Course* (2016), several Scrat shorts, *Ice Age: Scrat Tales* (2022) and *The Tiger's Apprentice* (2024). He has also contributed voice work to some of the films.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

### Performed in (2)

- *Ice Age: Collision Course* (2016), Fi1m 37, as Panicked Start (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-collision-course.md)
- *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), Fi1m 53, as Panicked Start (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-continental-drift.md)

### Crew (3) — the average rests on these

- *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), Fi1m 56, Co-Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs.md)
- *Robots* (2005), Fi1m 62, First Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/robots-2005.md)
- *Ice Age* (2002), Fi1m 73, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027), Editor
- *The Tiger's Apprentice* (2024), Editor
- *Ice Age: Scrat Tales* (2022), series, Editor
- *Ferdinand* (2017), as Village Tourist / Additional Voices (voice)
- *Ice Age: Collision Course* (2016), as Panicked Start (voice) · Editor — Fi1m 37, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-collision-course.md)
- *Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe* (2015), Editor
- *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), as Panicked Start (voice) · Editor — Fi1m 53, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-continental-drift.md)
- *Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2* (2011), Editor
- *Scrat's Continental Crack-Up* (2010), Editor
- *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), Co-Editor — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs.md)
- *No Time for Nuts* (2006), Editor
- *Robots* (2005), First Assistant Editor — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/robots-2005.md)
- *Ken Park* (2003), Assistant Editor
- *Just a Kiss* (2002), Assistant Editor
- *Ice Age* (2002), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md)
- *The Florentine* (1999), Dailies Manager
- *Harvest* (1999), Assistant Sound Editor
- *Walking to the Waterline* (1998), Assistant Editor
- *Eye of God* (1997), Apprentice Sound Editor

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