---
name: "Roy Watts"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roy-watts"
fi1m_id: "roy-watts"
imdb_id: "nm0915232"
tmdb_id: 19171
wikidata_id: "Q140374004"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "6 September 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T23:32:40.793699+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."
---

# Roy Watts

## Identity

Roy Watts

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roy-watts
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roy-watts
- **IMDb ID:** nm0915232
- **TMDB ID:** 19171
- **Wikidata ID:** Q140374004
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140374004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915232/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19171

Editor. Born 6 September 1942 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 6 September 1942, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1970–1994
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 88 (1), 1980s 64 (1), 1990s 62 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Drama 2, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Science Fiction 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $210m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140374004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915232/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19171

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Kes*](https://film.one/film/kes.md) (88)
- **AMC+:** [*Vice Squad*](https://film.one/film/vice-squad.md) (64)

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

## Biography

Roy Watts is a British film editor and producer. Born on 6 September 1942 in Islington, London, he began his career editing British films and television in the 1960s and 1970s.

His credits include *Poor Cow* (1967), *Kes* (1970), *Family Life* (1971), *The Golden Voyage of Sinbad* (1973), *Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger* (1977), *The Beastmaster* (1982) and *Beowulf* (1999). He served as additional editor on *Stargate* (1994) and produced the 1984 film *Angel*.

*Sources: imdb.com, allmovie.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Stargate* (1994), Fi1m 62, Additional Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/stargate.md)
- *Vice Squad* (1982), Fi1m 64, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/vice-squad.md)
- *Kes* (1970), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/kes.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Beowulf* (1999), Editor
- *Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess* (1998), Editor
- *Stargate* (1994), Additional Editor — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/stargate.md)
- *He's My Girl* (1987), Editor
- *Lady Beware* (1987), Editor
- *They Still Call Me Bruce* (1987), Editor
- *Where are the Children?* (1986), Editor
- *P.O.W. The Escape* (1986), Editor
- *Making the Grade* (1984), Editor
- *Angel* (1984), Producer
- *Deadly Force* (1983), Editor
- *Hambone and Hillie* (1983), Director
- *Triumphs of a Man Called Horse* (1983), Editor
- *The Beastmaster* (1982), Editor
- *Vice Squad* (1982), Editor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/vice-squad.md)
- *Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger* (1977), Editor
- *Moments* (1974), Editor
- *The Golden Voyage of Sinbad* (1973), Editor
- *Assassin* (1973), Editor
- *Family Life* (1971), Editor
- *The Rank and File* (1971), Editor
- *Percy* (1971), Editor
- *The Executioner* (1970), Editor
- *Kes* (1970), Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/kes.md)
- *The Big Flame* (1969), Editor
- *The Golden Vision* (1968), Editor
- *Poor Cow* (1967), Editor
- *In Two Minds* (1967), Editor
- *Cathy Come Home* (1966), Editor
- *Up the Junction* (1965), Editor

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