---
name: "Jimmy Ling"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jimmy-ling"
fi1m_id: "jimmy-ling"
imdb_id: "nm0512711"
tmdb_id: 1562806
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 58
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T17:39:21.844654+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."
---

# Jimmy Ling

## Identity

Jimmy Ling

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jimmy-ling
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jimmy-ling
- **IMDb ID:** nm0512711
- **TMDB ID:** 1562806
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512711/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1562806

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1981–1988
- **Also known as:** James B. Ling, James Ling, Jim Ling
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $439m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512711/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1562806

## Biography

Jimmy Ling is a sound editor and film editor. He worked in the sound department on numerous feature films and television productions from the late 1970s onwards, with credits including sound effects editor on *The Natural* (1984), sound editor on *Rain Man* (1988) and *American Me* (1992), and supervising sound editor on *Happy Together* (1989).

He is credited as editor (as James B. Ling) on *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1981) and has additional editing credits on *Maangamizi: The Ancient One* (1999) and *Chasing Tchaikovsky* (2007). Ling received a Primetime Emmy nomination for his sound work.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Rain Man* (1988), Fi1m 76, Sound Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/rain-man.md)
- *The Natural* (1984), Fi1m 67, Sound Effects Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-natural.md)
- *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1981), Fi1m 30, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/tarzan-the-ape-man.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *American Me* (1992), Sound Editor
- *L.A. Takedown* (1989), ADR Editor
- *Happy Together* (1989), Supervising Sound Editor
- *Rain Man* (1988), Sound Editor — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/rain-man.md)
- *Vice Versa* (1988), Sound Editor
- *No Man's Land* (1987), Sound Editor
- *The Rosary Murders* (1987), Sound Editor
- *The Natural* (1984), Sound Effects Editor — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/the-natural.md)
- *The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper* (1981), Sound Effects Editor
- *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1981), Editor — Fi1m 30, [page](https://film.one/film/tarzan-the-ape-man.md)
- *Portrait of a Hitman* (1979), Sound Editor

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