---
name: "John Soh"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-soh"
fi1m_id: "john-soh"
imdb_id: "nm0812235"
tmdb_id: 1247994
roles: []
born: "11 September 1929"
died: "9 August 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:59:06.746455+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."
---

# John Soh

## Identity

John Soh

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-soh
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-soh
- **IMDb ID:** nm0812235
- **TMDB ID:** 1247994
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812235/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1247994

Editor. Born 11 September 1929 in Seoul, South Korea. Died 9 August 2025.

## Details

- **Born:** 11 September 1929, Seoul, South Korea
- **Died:** 9 August 2025
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812235/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1247994

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Becoming Cousteau*](https://film.one/film/becoming-cousteau.md) (74)

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

## Biography

John Soh (1929–2025) was an American film and television editor and producer. Born in Seoul, South Korea, he served as a translator with the US Marines during the Korean War before moving to the United States. He studied at Chapman College and UCLA Film School, later working with producer David Wolper on documentaries.

Soh’s longest collaboration was with Jacques Cousteau, for whom he edited twenty-three episodes of the series *The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau* (1968–1982) and produced the documentary *Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years* (1985). He also edited the Oscar-winning documentary *The Hellstrom Chronicle* (1971) and the miniseries *Hiroshima* (1995). He received three Primetime Emmy nominations and the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 2007. He appears in archive sound in the 2021 documentary *Becoming Cousteau*.

*Sources: imdb.com, cinemontage.org, interviews.televisionacademy.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Becoming Cousteau* (2021), Fi1m 74, as Self (voice) (archive sound) — [page](https://film.one/film/becoming-cousteau.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years* (1985), Director
- *The Cousteau Collection N°20-1 | Alcyone: Daughter of the Wind* (1985), Director
- *St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea* (1982), Editor
- *Voyage to the Edge of the World* (1976), Editor
- *The Hellstrom Chronicle* (1971), Editor
- *Black Water Gold* (1970), Associate Producer, Editor
- *The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich* (1968), Editor
- *The Really Big Family* (1966), Editor
- *Cousteau: Amazon*, series, Producer

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