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name: "Marilyn McMahon Adams"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marilyn-mcmahon-adams"
fi1m_id: "marilyn-mcmahon-adams"
imdb_id: "nm0011182"
tmdb_id: 1164294
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:42:20.982585+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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# Marilyn McMahon Adams

## Identity

Marilyn McMahon Adams

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marilyn-mcmahon-adams
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marilyn-mcmahon-adams
- **IMDb ID:** nm0011182
- **TMDB ID:** 1164294
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011182/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1164294

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Also known as:** Marilyn Adams, Marilyn McMahon
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011182/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1164294

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Marilyn McMahon Adams is a film and television editor, also credited as Marilyn Adams and Marilyn McMahon. She worked as an assistant editor on the series *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997–2001) and later as editor on ten episodes (2001–2002).

Her other credits include assistant editor on *Streets of Fire* (1984), *In the Valley of Elah* (2007) and *Bosch* (2015), associate editor on *At Middleton* (2013), and editor on the series *The Secret Life of the American Teenager* (2010–2011) and the film *Somewhere Slow* (2013). She has received one award nomination.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Bosch* (2015), series, Assistant Editor
- *At Middleton* (2013), Associate Editor
- *Somewhere Slow* (2013), Editor
- *In the Valley of Elah* (2007), Assistant Editor
- *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), series, Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md)
- *Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige* (1981), Assistant Editor
- *Blood Beach* (1980), Assistant Editor
- *The Seduction of Miss Leona* (1980), Assistant Editor
- *Night Shift* (1980), as Continuity

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