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name: "Thomas Stanford"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/thomas-stanford"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1924"
died: "23 December 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T03:52:41.840407+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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# Thomas Stanford

Editor. Born 1 January 1924 in Düsseldorf. Died 23 December 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1924, Düsseldorf
- **Died:** 23 December 2017
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanford_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479010, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822201/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37880

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*West Side Story*](https://film.one/film/west-side-story.md) (80)

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## Biography

Thomas Stanford was an American film and television editor. Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, he was educated in Switzerland and England, attending Malvern College. He began his credited work as an editor in Hollywood with Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and went on to edit about sixteen feature films.

Stanford won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for West Side Story (1961). He collaborated with director Sydney Pollack on The Slender Thread (1965), Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and The Yakuza (1974), and with Mark Rydell on The Fox (1967) and The Reivers (1969). Other credits include Hell in the Pacific (1968), The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) and Split Decisions (1988). He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2017.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, billboard.com, hollywoodreporter.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *West Side Story* (1961), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/west-side-story.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Five More Minutes: Moments Like These* (2022), Associate Producer
- *My Grown-Up Christmas List* (2022), Associate Producer
- *Greed: A Seven Deadly Sins Story* (2022), Associate Producer
- *Love on Fire* (2022), Associate Producer
- *Split Decisions* (1988), Editor
- *The Legend of the Lone Ranger* (1981), Editor
- *Before and After* (1979), Editor
- *Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force* (1978), Editor
- *Mad Bull* (1977), Editor
- *The Yakuza* (1974), Editor
- *Jeremiah Johnson* (1972), Editor
- *The Steagle* (1971), Editor
- *The Reivers* (1969), Editor
- *Hell in the Pacific* (1968), Editor
- *The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy* (1967), Supervising Editor
- *The Fox* (1967), Editor
- *Don't Make Waves* (1967), Editor
- *The Slender Thread* (1965), Editor
- *The Truth About Spring* (1965), Editor
- *Emil and the Detectives* (1964), Editor
- *In the Cool of the Day* (1963), Editor
- *West Side Story* (1961), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/west-side-story.md)
- *Suddenly, Last Summer* (1959), Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1962: Best Film Editing (won), for *West Side Story*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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