---
name: "Norman Gay"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/norman-gay"
fi1m_id: "norman-gay"
imdb_id: "nm0310797"
tmdb_id: 57924
wikidata_id: "Q15837048"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 87
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T23:23:55.305097+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."
---

# Norman Gay

## Identity

Norman Gay

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/norman-gay
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** norman-gay
- **IMDb ID:** nm0310797
- **TMDB ID:** 57924
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15837048
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15837048, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0310797/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57924

Editor. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Active:** 1971–1973
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15837048, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0310797/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57924

## Biography

Norman Gay is a film editor. He began working as an assistant editor in the late 1960s and received his first solo editing credits in 1973.

Gay edited *The Exorcist* (1973), for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing. He served as associate editor on *The French Connection* (1971) and edited *Shock Waves* (1977) as well as episodes of the television series *The Equalizer* (1985–1989).

Gay worked on around twenty film and television productions until the early 1990s. He later served as an administrator for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in New York City. He is married to Jonina Herter and they have one child.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Exorcist* (1973), Fi1m 89, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-exorcist.md)
- *The French Connection* (1971), Fi1m 85, Associate Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-french-connection.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *Murder Times Seven* (1990), Editor
- *Leader of the Band* (1987), Editor
- *Intimate Strangers* (1986), Editor
- *Out of the Darkness* (1985), Editor
- *The Equalizer* (1985), series, Editor
- *Lily in Love* (1984), Editor
- *Found Money* (1983), Editor
- *Brady’s Escape* (1983), Editor
- *Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer* (1983), Editor
- *Svengali* (1983), Editor
- *A Question of Honor* (1982), Editor
- *Honeysuckle Rose* (1980), Editor
- *The Fantastic Seven* (1979), Editor
- *Shock Waves* (1977), Editor
- *The Exorcist* (1973), Editor — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/the-exorcist.md)
- *The Connection* (1973), Editor
- *The French Connection* (1971), Associate Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-french-connection.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1974: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Exorcist*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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