---
name: "Jerome Thoms"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jerome-thoms"
fi1m_id: "jerome-thoms"
imdb_id: "nm0860870"
tmdb_id: 34439
wikidata_id: "Q1687756"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "7 October 1907"
died: "1 November 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:49:30.859883+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."
---

# Jerome Thoms

## Identity

Jerome Thoms

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jerome-thoms
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jerome-thoms
- **IMDb ID:** nm0860870
- **TMDB ID:** 34439
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1687756
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Thoms, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1687756, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34439

Editor. Born 7 October 1907 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Died 1 November 1977.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 7 October 1907, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- **Died:** 1 November 1977
- **Also known as:** Jerry Thoms
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Thoms, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1687756, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34439

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Ride Lonesome*](https://film.one/film/ride-lonesome.md) (83)

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

## Biography

Jerome Thoms (also credited as Jerry Thoms) was an American film editor. He worked primarily at Columbia Pictures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s and edited more than one hundred features and television episodes.

His credits include *The Harder They Fall* (1956), *Pal Joey* (1957), *The 7th Voyage of Sinbad* (1958), *Ride Lonesome* (1959), *The Crimson Kimono* (1959), *Underworld U.S.A.* (1961), *Shock Corridor* (1963) and *The Naked Kiss* (1964). He received an Academy Award nomination for best film editing for *Pal Joey*, shared with Viola Lawrence.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ride Lonesome* (1959), Fi1m 83, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/ride-lonesome.md)

## Complete filmography (81)

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

- *The Naked Kiss* (1964), Editor
- *Shock Corridor* (1963), Editor
- *Showdown* (1963), Editor
- *The Interns* (1962), Editor
- *Don't Knock the Twist* (1962), Editor
- *Twist Around The Clock* (1961), Editor
- *Underworld U.S.A.* (1961), Editor
- *The Boy and the Pirates* (1960), Editor
- *Edge of Eternity* (1959), Editor
- *The Crimson Kimono* (1959), Editor
- *Face of a Fugitive* (1959), Editor
- *Forbidden Island* (1959), as Film Processor
- *Ride Lonesome* (1959), Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/ride-lonesome.md)
- *Good Day for a Hanging* (1959), Editor
- *The 7th Voyage of Sinbad* (1958), Editor
- *Gunman's Walk* (1958), Editor
- *Crash Landing* (1958), Editor
- *Screaming Mimi* (1958), Editor
- *Pal Joey* (1957), Editor
- *Jeanne Eagels* (1957), Editor
- *No Time to Be Young* (1957), Editor
- *Hellcats of the Navy* (1957), Editor
- *The 27th Day* (1957), Editor
- *Reprisal!* (1956), Editor
- *Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!* (1956), Editor
- *The Harder They Fall* (1956), Editor
- *Battle Stations* (1956), Editor
- *Teen-Age Crime Wave* (1955), Editor
- *Apache Ambush* (1955), Editor
- *5 Against the House* (1955), Editor
- *It Came from Beneath the Sea* (1955), Editor
- *Seminole Uprising* (1955), Editor
- *The Violent Men* (1955), Editor
- *Pushover* (1954), Editor
- *Drive a Crooked Road* (1954), Editor
- *Gun Fury* (1953), Editor
- *Prince of Pirates* (1953), Editor
- *The Pathfinder* (1952), Editor
- *The Brigand* (1952), Editor
- *Scandal Sheet* (1952), Editor
- *Corky of Gasoline Alley* (1951), Editor
- *Mask of the Avenger* (1951), Editor
- *Pygmy Island* (1950), Editor
- *The Killer That Stalked New York* (1950), Editor
- *The Good Humor Man* (1950), Editor
- *Father Is a Bachelor* (1950), Editor
- *Miss Grant Takes Richmond* (1949), Editor
- *Johnny Allegro* (1949), Editor
- *The Crime Doctor's Diary* (1949), Editor
- *The Untamed Breed* (1948), Editor
- *Thunderhoof* (1948), Editor
- *My Dog Rusty* (1948), Editor
- *The Black Arrow* (1948), Editor
- *When a Girl's Beautiful* (1947), Editor
- *Blondie's Holiday* (1947), Editor
- *Blondie's Big Moment* (1947), Editor
- *So Dark the Night* (1946), Editor
- *Cowboy Blues* (1946), Editor
- *The Devil's Mask* (1946), Editor
- *A Close Call for Boston Blackie* (1946), Editor
- *Life with Blondie* (1945), Editor
- *Blonde from Brooklyn* (1945), Editor
- *Eve Knew Her Apples* (1945), Editor
- *Escape in the Fog* (1945), Editor
- *Tahiti Nights* (1944), Editor
- *The Whistler* (1944), Editor
- *Two-Man Submarine* (1944), Editor
- *The Ghost That Walks Alone* (1944), Editor
- *Swing Out the Blues* (1943), Editor
- *The Chance of a Lifetime* (1943), Editor
- *Dangerous Blondes* (1943), Editor
- *Dizzy Detectives* (1943), Editor
- *Sock-a-Bye Baby* (1942), Editor
- *Three Smart Saps* (1942), Editor
- *What's the Matador?* (1942), Editor
- *Loco Boy Makes Good* (1942), Editor
- *She's Oil Mine* (1941), Editor
- *In the Sweet Pie and Pie* (1941), Editor
- *General Nuisance* (1941), Editor
- *I'll Never Heil Again* (1941), Editor
- *Way Out West* (1930), Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1958: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Pal Joey*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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