---
name: "Sam Winston"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sam-winston"
fi1m_id: "sam-winston"
imdb_id: "nm0935639"
tmdb_id: 2894
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "10 October 1877"
died: "6 April 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T00:21:37.647131+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."
---

# Sam Winston

## Identity

Sam Winston

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sam-winston
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sam-winston
- **IMDb ID:** nm0935639
- **TMDB ID:** 2894
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935639/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2894

Editor. Born 10 October 1877 in Bastrop, Texas, USA. Died 6 April 1965.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 10 October 1877, Bastrop, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 6 April 1965
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935639/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2894

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Blue Angel*](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Sam Winston was a film editor whose credits include *The Blue Angel* (1930), *Morocco* (1930), *The Scarlet Empress* (1934), *The Devil Is a Woman* (1935) and *The Shanghai Gesture* (1941). He worked frequently with director Josef von Sternberg, sometimes uncredited.

Born in Bastrop, Texas, Winston also received writing and producing credits. He died in Los Angeles in 1965.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Blue Angel* (1930), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *The Shanghai Gesture* (1941), Editor
- *The Devil Is a Woman* (1935), Editor
- *The Scarlet Empress* (1934), Editor
- *Morocco* (1930), Editor
- *The Blue Angel* (1930), Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md)
- *The Beloved Vagabond* (1923), Editor
- *Die Welt*, Director

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