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name: "Seth Flaum"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/seth-flaum"
fi1m_id: "seth-flaum"
imdb_id: "nm0281311"
tmdb_id: 21794
wikidata_id: "Q24849414"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T02:27:07.871232+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."
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# Seth Flaum

## Identity

Seth Flaum

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/seth-flaum
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** seth-flaum
- **IMDb ID:** nm0281311
- **TMDB ID:** 21794
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24849414
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24849414, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281311/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21794

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1984–2006
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 81 (1), 2000s 70 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24849414, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281311/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21794

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*High School Musical*](https://film.one/film/high-school-musical.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Seth Flaum is an American film and television editor. He began his career in the early 1980s in assistant and associate editing roles on films including *Personal Best* (1982), *The Karate Kid* (1984), *Ladyhawke* (1985) and *The Money Pit* (1986). He progressed to full editor credits from the late 1980s onwards.

Flaum's editing work includes *The Great Outdoors* (1988), *Tales from the Crypt* (1989), *The Replacements* (2000), *The Whole Ten Yards* (2004), *High School Musical* (2006), *High School Musical 2* (2007), *High School Musical 3: Senior Year* (2008) and *Fanboys* (2009). He has also edited later projects such as *Zombeavers* (2014) and television films and series including episodes of *Insatiable* (2018). He is the son of documentary filmmaker Marshall Flaum.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, moviemeter.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *High School Musical* (2006), Fi1m 70, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/high-school-musical.md)
- *The Karate Kid* (1984), Fi1m 81, Associate Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid.md)

## Complete filmography (43)

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

- *Buried in Barstow* (2022), Editor
- *American Typecast* (2019), Additional Editor
- *The Year of Spectacular Men* (2018), Editor
- *Zombeavers* (2014), Editor
- *Silent Night* (2012), Editor
- *Flicka: Country Pride* (2012), Editor
- *A Princess for Christmas* (2011), Editor
- *The Family Tree* (2011), Editor
- *Marley & Me: The Puppy Years* (2011), Editor
- *The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice* (2010), Editor
- *Fanboys* (2009), Editor
- *High School Musical 3: Senior Year* (2008), Editor
- *My Best Friend's Girl* (2008), Editor
- *Taking 5* (2007), Editor
- *High School Musical 2* (2007), Editor
- *High School Musical* (2006), Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/high-school-musical.md)
- *The Whole Ten Yards* (2004), Editor
- *Gleason* (2002), Editor
- *The Country Bears* (2002), Editor
- *Juwanna Mann* (2002), Editor
- *The Replacements* (2000), Editor
- *The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story* (1999), Editor
- *Simpatico* (1999), Editor
- *Take My Advice:  The Ann and Abby Story* (1999), Editor
- *The Odd Couple II* (1998), Editor
- *Vegas Vacation* (1997), Editor
- *Rasputin* (1996), Editor
- *Grumpier Old Men* (1995), Editor
- *Tyson* (1995), Editor
- *Roommates* (1995), Editor
- *Posse* (1993), Editor
- *Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story* (1993), Editor
- *Blue Ice* (1992), Editor
- *Shout* (1991), Editor
- *Thanksgiving Day* (1990), Editor
- *The Guardian* (1990), Editor
- *Tales from the Crypt* (1989), series, Editor
- *The Great Outdoors* (1988), Editor
- *Some Kind of Wonderful* (1987), Associate Editor
- *The Money Pit* (1986), Assistant Editor
- *Ladyhawke* (1985), Assistant Editor
- *The Karate Kid* (1984), Associate Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid.md)
- *Personal Best* (1982), Assistant Editor

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