---
name: "Rita Roland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rita-roland"
fi1m_id: "rita-roland"
imdb_id: "nm0738079"
tmdb_id: 1020770
wikidata_id: "Q1150251"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "5 October 1914"
died: "17 August 1998"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T17:21:31.746970+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."
---

# Rita Roland

## Identity

Rita Roland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rita-roland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rita-roland
- **IMDb ID:** nm0738079
- **TMDB ID:** 1020770
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1150251
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Roland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1150251, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738079/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1020770

Editor. Born 5 October 1914 in Berlin. Died 17 August 1998.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 5 October 1914, Berlin
- **Died:** 17 August 1998
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Roland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1150251, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738079/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1020770

## Biography

Rita Roland was a German-born film editor. Born Rita Victoria Rosenstein in Berlin on 5 October 1914, she began her career editing films in Europe before the Second World War. She later moved to Hollywood, where she worked extensively for MGM and edited numerous feature films and television productions.

Her credits include *A Patch of Blue* (1965), *Spinout* (1966), *Resurrection* (1980) and *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981). She also edited the television miniseries *Sybil* (1976) and received an Emmy Award for her work on *Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years* (1977). Roland was married to producer-director Heinz Josephson and later to writer-director Henry Martin. She died in Los Angeles on 17 August 1998.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981), Fi1m 56, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/fort-apache-the-bronx.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *The New Kids* (1985), Editor
- *The Dollmaker* (1984), Editor
- *Six Pack* (1982), Editor
- *A Piano for Mrs. Cimino* (1982), Editor
- *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981), Editor — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/fort-apache-the-bronx.md)
- *Resurrection* (1980), Editor
- *Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff* (1979), Editor
- *The Betsy* (1978), Editor
- *Corey: For the People* (1977), Editor
- *Sybil* (1976), series, Editor
- *Once Is Not Enough* (1975), Editor
- *Remember When* (1974), Editor
- *Pioneer Woman* (1973), Editor
- *She Lives!* (1973), Editor
- *Incident on a Dark Street* (1973), Editor
- *The Devil's Daughter* (1973), Editor
- *The Weekend Nun* (1972), Editor
- *To Find a Man* (1972), Editor
- *Justine* (1969), Editor
- *The Split* (1968), Editor
- *Don't Make Waves* (1967), Editor
- *Penelope* (1966), Editor
- *Spinout* (1966), Editor
- *The Singing Nun* (1966), Editor
- *A Patch of Blue* (1965), Editor
- *Girl Happy* (1965), Editor
- *Honeymoon Hotel* (1964), Editor
- *Crowded Paradise* (1956), Editor
- *Dutch in Seven Lessons* (1948), Editor
- *Six Years* (1947), Editor
- *Somewhere in the Netherlands* (1940), Editor
- *Boefje* (1939), Editor

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