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name: "Ted Cheesman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ted-cheesman"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "23 November 1902"
died: "30 December 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:14:12.621418+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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# Ted Cheesman

Editor. Born 23 November 1902 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Died 30 December 1964.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 23 November 1902, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 30 December 1964
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0154924/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3254

## Biography

Ted Cheesman was an American film editor. Born on 23 November 1902 in Kansas City, Missouri, he began working in the industry in the late silent era with credits from 1928 and moved into sound films in the early 1930s.

He is best known for his editing on *King Kong* (1933) and its sequel *The Son of Kong* (1933). Other notable credits include *She* (1935) and *Mighty Joe Young* (1949). Cheesman died on 30 December 1964 in Los Angeles, California.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *King Kong* (1933), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/king-kong.md)

## Also known for

- *The Son of Kong* (1933), Editor
- *Mighty Joe Young* (1949), Editor
- *She* (1935), Editor

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