---
name: "Paul Trejo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-trejo"
fi1m_id: "paul-trejo"
imdb_id: "nm0871816"
tmdb_id: 15807
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "23 July 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-22T21:47:18.850733+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."
---

# Paul Trejo

## Identity

Paul Trejo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-trejo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-trejo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0871816
- **TMDB ID:** 15807
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871816/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15807

Editor. Born 23 July 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 23 July 1953
- **Active:** 1986–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 2020s 61 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871816/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15807

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Foundation*](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md) (61)

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

## Biography

Paul Trejo is an American film and television editor. Born on 23 July 1953, he began his career in documentary editing at a PBS affiliate in New Jersey before moving to New York City. There he worked at Maysles Brothers Films and R/Greenberg Associates, and served as an assistant editor and sound editor on features, collaborating with editors including Barry Malkin.

He later relocated to Los Angeles to focus on picture editing. His early credits in that role include episodes of the original *Twin Peaks* series, *Coneheads* (1993) and *Radioland Murders* (1994). Trejo is a member of the American Cinema Editors.

His subsequent work includes editing on *Green Street Hooligans* (2005), *Unknown* (2006), *Bates Motel* (2013), *Black Sails* (2014–2017), *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), *Carnival Row* (2019), *Locke & Key* (2020) and multiple episodes of *Foundation* (2021–).

*Sources: imdb.com, independentartistgroup.com, postmagazine.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Foundation* (2021), Fi1m 61, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md)
- *Something Wild* (1986), Fi1m 82, Sound Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Foundation* (2021), series, Editor — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md)
- *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), series, Editor
- *Sons of Liberty* (2015), series, Editor
- *Bates Motel* (2013), series, Editor
- *Beer for My Horses* (2008), Editor
- *The Perfect Holiday* (2007), Editor
- *Unknown* (2006), Editor
- *Thief* (2006), series, Editor
- *Green Street Hooligans* (2005), Editor
- *The Book of Ruth* (2004), Editor
- *Where the Red Fern Grows* (2003), Editor
- *Skins* (2002), Editor
- *In My Life* (2002), Editor
- *Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis* (2000), series, Editor
- *Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis* (2000), Editor
- *Thursday* (1998), Editor
- *Gun* (1997), series, Editor
- *The Grave* (1996), Editor
- *Radioland Murders* (1994), Editor
- *Coneheads* (1993), Editor
- *Obsessed* (1992), Editor
- *Love Kills* (1991), Editor
- *Not Just Any Flower* (1988), Editor
- *Something Wild* (1986), Sound Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)
- *Belizaire the Cajun* (1986), Editor
- *The House on Sorority Row* (1982), Co-Editor
- *Eyes of a Stranger* (1981), Assistant Editor
- *Poet of His People* (1978), Editor

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