---
name: "Sean Barton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sean-barton"
fi1m_id: "sean-barton"
imdb_id: "nm0059247"
tmdb_id: 64876
wikidata_id: "Q29293119"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "29 March 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:13:24.995616+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."
---

# Sean Barton

## Identity

Sean Barton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sean-barton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sean-barton
- **IMDb ID:** nm0059247
- **TMDB ID:** 64876
- **Wikidata ID:** Q29293119
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29293119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059247/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64876

Editor. Born 29 March 1944 in Hampton Court, Surrey, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 29 March 1944, Hampton Court, Surrey, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29293119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059247/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64876

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Return of the Jedi*](https://film.one/film/return-of-the-jedi.md) (75)

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

## Biography

Sean Barton is a British film editor. Born on 29 March 1944 in Hampton Court, Surrey, England, he began his career editing commercials before moving into feature films in the late 1970s.

His credits include *Quadrophenia* (1979), *Eye of the Needle* (1981), *Return of the Jedi* (1983), *Jagged Edge* (1985), *The Fly II* (1989) and *Mutant Chronicles* (2008). He frequently collaborated with director Richard Marquand. He has also worked as a second unit director and, in 1991, directed the film *Panga* (also known as *Curse III: Blood Sacrifice*).

Barton is the cousin of screenwriter and director Muriel Box.

*Sources: imdb.com, starwars.fandom.com, thecallsheet.co.uk, jedinews.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Return of the Jedi* (1983), Fi1m 75, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/return-of-the-jedi.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

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

- *Intercept: A Century of Signals Intelligence* (2023), Editor
- *The Postcard Killings* (2020), Editor
- *Hurricane* (2018), Editor
- *Feast of Varanasi* (2016), Editor
- *A Closed Book* (2012), Editor
- *The Wicker Tree* (2011), Editor
- *Tracker* (2010), Editor
- *Holy Water* (2009), Editor
- *Sisterhood* (2008), Editor
- *Mutant Chronicles* (2008), Editor
- *Nostradamus* (2006), Editor
- *Chaos* (2005), Editor
- *School for Seduction* (2004), Editor
- *Mother Teresa of Calcutta* (2003), Editor
- *Mother Teresa* (2003), series, Editor
- *The Virgin of Liverpool* (2003), Editor
- *Callas Forever* (2002), Editor
- *The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells* (2001), series, Editor
- *Jason and the Argonauts* (2000), series, Editor
- *Guest House Paradiso* (1999), Editor
- *This Year's Love* (1999), Editor
- *The Adventures of Pinocchio* (1996), Editor
- *The Whipping Boy* (1994), Editor
- *Golden Gate* (1994), Editor
- *The Lion Child* (1993), Editor
- *K2* (1991), Editor
- *Curse III: Blood Sacrifice* (1991), Director, Screenplay
- *The Fly II* (1989), Editor
- *Hearts of Fire* (1987), Editor
- *Jagged Edge* (1985), Editor
- *Restless Natives* (1985), Editor
- *Until September* (1984), Editor
- *Return of the Jedi* (1983), Editor — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/return-of-the-jedi.md)
- *The Appointment* (1983), Editor
- *Eye of the Needle* (1981), Editor
- *Birth of the Beatles* (1979), Editor
- *Quadrophenia* (1979), Editor
- *The Waterloo Bridge Handicap* (1978), Editor

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