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name: "Jere Huggins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jere-huggins"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "24 November 1940"
died: "17 September 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
updated: "2026-09-17T04:47:36.025204+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."
---

# Jere Huggins

Editor. Born 24 November 1940. Died 17 September 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 24 November 1940
- **Died:** 17 September 2023
- **Active:** 1970–1992
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 1990s 78 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/48807

## Biography

Jere Pound Huggins was an American film editor. Born on 24 November 1940, he earned degrees in philosophy and law from the University of Georgia before moving to New York to work in film. He edited the documentary *Woodstock* (1970).

Huggins later relocated to Los Angeles, where he served as editor on feature films including *Cat People* (1982), *Personal Best* (1982), *Sing* (1989), *For the Boys* (1991) and *The Education of Little Tree* (1997). He contributed additional or assembly editing to *To Live and Die in L.A.* (1985), *Awakenings* (1990), *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992) and *Pulp Fiction* (1994). He also edited television series and the 2014 documentary *Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock*. Huggins died on 17 September 2023 in Athens, Georgia.

*Sources: imdb.com, dignitymemorial.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), Fi1m 84, Additional Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md)
- *Awakenings* (1990), Fi1m 73, Additional Editing — [page](https://film.one/film/awakenings.md)
- *Woodstock* (1970), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/woodstock.md)

## Also known for

- *The Karate Kid Part III* (1989), Additional Editing
- *To Live and Die in L.A.* (1985), Additional Editing
- *The Natural* (1984), Additional Editor
- *Sorcerer* (1977), Assistant Editor
- *Cat People* (1982), Editor
- *The Driver* (1978), Assistant Editor
- *With Honors* (1994), Additional Editing
- *The Big Bird Cage* (1972), Editor

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