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name: "John F. Burnett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-f-burnett"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "5 March 1934"
died: "24 October 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:17:27.122483+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."
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# John F. Burnett

Editor. Born 5 March 1934 in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.. Died 24 October 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 5 March 1934, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
- **Died:** 24 October 2024
- **Also known as:** John Burnett

## Biography

John F. Burnett was an American film editor. Born John Forbes Burnett on 5 March 1934 in Kansas City, Missouri, he began his career at Warner Bros. as a messenger and later worked as an assistant editor on films including *My Fair Lady* (1964). His first lead editing credit came with *The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter* (1968).

Burnett edited numerous feature films, including *The Way We Were* (1973), *Murder by Death* (1976), *The Goodbye Girl* (1977), *Grease* (1978), *...And Justice for All* (1979), *Grease 2* (1982) and *Leviathan* (1989). He collaborated repeatedly with directors such as Herbert Ross, Blake Edwards and George Cukor.

He served as president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild from 1975 to 1976 and shared a Primetime Emmy Award for editing the miniseries *War and Remembrance* (1988–1989). Burnett died on 24 October 2024 in Lincoln, California.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Grease* (1978), Fi1m 76, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/grease.md)

## Also known for

- *Murder by Death* (1976), Editor
- *Grease 2* (1982), Editor
- *...And Justice for All* (1979), Editor
- *Leviathan* (1989), Editor
- *The Way We Were* (1973), Editor
- *Leap of Faith* (1992), Editor
- *Death Hunt* (1981), Editor
- *The Goodbye Girl* (1977), Editor

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