---
name: "Lee Percy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lee-percy"
fi1m_id: "lee-percy"
imdb_id: "nm0672915"
tmdb_id: 2866
wikidata_id: "Q1811944"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "10 February 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-30T04:03:08.945095+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."
---

# Lee Percy

## Identity

Lee Percy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lee-percy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lee-percy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0672915
- **TMDB ID:** 2866
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1811944
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Percy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1811944, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672915/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2866

Editor. Born 10 February 1953 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 10 February 1953, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- **Active:** 1985–2013
- **Also known as:** Lee Edward Percy
- **Frequently works with:** [Kimberly Peirce](https://film.one/person/kimberly-peirce.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 84 (1), 1990s 80 (2), 2010s 52 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $129m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Percy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1811944, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672915/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2866

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Carrie*](https://film.one/film/carrie-2013.md) (52)

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

## Biography

Lee Percy is an American film editor. Born on 10 February 1953 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he trained as an actor at the Juilliard School before turning to editing.

His credits include *Reversal of Fortune* (1990) and *Boys Don't Cry* (1999). He has edited many other films, among them *Re-Animator* (1985), *From Beyond* (1986) and several directed by Barbet Schroeder. In 2011 he directed, wrote and executive-produced the short film *Dreaming American*.

Percy won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie for the 2009 television film *Taking Chance* and was nominated in the same category for *Grey Gardens*.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Carrie* (2013), Fi1m 52, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/carrie-2013.md)
- *Boys Don't Cry* (1999), Fi1m 85, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-dont-cry.md)
- *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), Fi1m 75, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/reversal-of-fortune.md)
- *Kiss of the Spider Woman* (1985), Fi1m 84, Additional Editing — [page](https://film.one/film/kiss-of-the-spider-woman.md)

## Complete filmography (52)

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

- *The Burial* (2023), Editor
- *The Half of It* (2020), Editor
- *Skin* (2019), Editor
- *Mapplethorpe* (2019), Editor
- *The Kindergarten Teacher* (2018), Editor
- *Angelica* (2017), Editor
- *The Mountain Between Us* (2017), Editor
- *Snowden* (2016), Editor
- *Touched with Fire* (2016), Editor
- *Carrie* (2013), Editor — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/carrie-2013.md)
- *Disconnect* (2013), Editor
- *Thin Ice* (2012), Editor
- *Dreaming American* (2011), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *As Good As Dead* (2010), Editor
- *Amelia* (2009), Editor
- *Into Temptation* (2009), Editor
- *Grey Gardens* (2009), Editor
- *Frank the Rat* (2009), Editor
- *Noise* (2007), Editor
- *Wind Chill* (2007), Editor
- *The Ice Harvest* (2005), Editor
- *Mrs. Harris* (2005), Editor
- *A Love Song for Bobby Long* (2004), Editor
- *A Home at the End of the World* (2004), Editor
- *Maria Full of Grace* (2004), Editor
- *Murder by Numbers* (2002), Editor
- *The Believer* (2001), Editor
- *The Center of the World* (2001), Editor
- *Lift* (2001), Editor
- *Boys Don't Cry* (1999), Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-dont-cry.md)
- *54* (1998), Editor
- *Desperate Measures* (1998), Editor
- *Before and After* (1996), Editor
- *Kiss of Death* (1995), Editor
- *Corrina, Corrina* (1994), Editor
- *Against the Wall* (1994), Editor
- *Single White Female* (1992), Editor
- *Year of the Gun* (1991), Editor
- *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), Editor — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/reversal-of-fortune.md)
- *Blue Steel* (1990), Editor
- *Checking Out* (1988), Editor
- *Slam Dance* (1987), Editor
- *Dolls* (1987), Editor
- *From Beyond* (1986), Editor
- *Troll* (1986), Editor
- *Re-Animator* (1985), Editor
- *Kiss of the Spider Woman* (1985), as Additional Editing — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/kiss-of-the-spider-woman.md)
- *They Call Me Bruce?* (1982), Editor
- *The Killing of America* (1981), Editor
- *Shogun Assassin* (1980), Editor
- *Remembrance* (1978), Director of Photography
- *2020*, Editor

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