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name: "Jeff Cahn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeff-cahn"
fi1m_id: "jeff-cahn"
imdb_id: "nm0128720"
tmdb_id: 2302136
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T11:13:06.507794+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."
---

# Jeff Cahn

## Identity

Jeff Cahn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeff-cahn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeff-cahn
- **IMDb ID:** nm0128720
- **TMDB ID:** 2302136
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2302136

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Also known as:** Jeffrey Cahn, Jeffrey H. Cahn
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2302136

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*One Tree Hill*](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md) (66)

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

## Biography

Jeff Cahn is a film and television editor. He began working in the industry in New York in 1975 before moving to Los Angeles in 1978. Early credits include editorial work on *The Olympiad* (1976) and *Cosmos* (1980).

Cahn served as assistant editor on 147 episodes of *The X-Files* (1993–2002) and the 1998 feature film *The X-Files: Fight the Future*. He has editing credits on series including *St. Elsewhere* (1986), *Snoops* (1990) and *Father Dowling Mysteries* (1990), and on the television film *In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco* (1993). Later work includes assistant editing on *One Tree Hill* (2003–2012) and *Orange Is the New Black* (2013–2016). He has also directed episodes of *Greatest Sports Legends* and appeared in small acting roles.

*Sources: imdb.com, eatthecorn.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *One Tree Hill* (2003), Fi1m 66, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *One Tree Hill* (2003), series, Assistant Editor, Editor — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md)
- *The X-Files* (1998), Assistant Editor
- *Inside The X-Files* (1998), Editor
- *Boston Common* (1996), series, as Professor
- *The X-Files* (1993), series, Assistant Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)
- *In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco* (1993), Editor
- *In the Line of Duty: Street War* (1992), Assistant Editor
- *The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw* (1991), Assistant Editor
- *In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing* (1990), Additional Editor
- *The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission* (1987), Assistant Editor
- *NBC: The First Fifty Years* (1976), Assistant Editor
- *Salsa* (1976), Writer

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