Biography
Richard Mettler (1970–2026) was a French-born American film editor. He began his career editing music videos and commercials before moving into feature films.
Mettler edited Metro Manila (2013), directed by Sean Ellis, which won the Sundance World Cinema Audience Award and marked the start of a recurring collaboration with the director. His other credits include Anthropoid (2016), for which he received a Czech Lion Award nomination for best editing, The Secrets We Keep (2020), The Cursed (2021), I.S.S. (2023) and Desert Warrior (2025), on which he also served as splinter unit director and associate producer.
Mettler died of cancer in New York City on 1 June 2026.
