Jacqueline Cambas

Jacqueline C. Cambas (born in New York City) is an American film editor.

Life

Jacqueline Cambas was born in New York City.^[1] From 1972 until 1976 she studied education and psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Cambas was working as a teacher before she started to work in the film industry.^[1]

Since the mid-1970s Cambas was active as a film editor. In the beginning she was assistant editor for Tom Rolf, with whom she worked on films such as Hardcore, The Great Outdoors or Black Rain. Soon she started to work on her own. Since Racing with the Moon (1984) she often worked with director Richard Benjamin on films such as City Heat, The Money Pit, Little Nikita, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Downtown, Mermaids, Made in America, Milk Money, Mrs. Winterbourne, The Shrink Is In or Marci X.

Cambas is a member of American Cinema Editors (ACE), where she is a life member in the Board of Directors since 2017.^[2][3]

Selected filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1980	The Gong Show Movie	Chuck Barris
	Falling in Love Again	Steven Paul
1981	Zoot Suit	Luis Valdez
1982	Personal Best	Robert Towne
	Cat People	Paul Schrader	Second collaboration with Paul Schrader
1983	Surf II	Randall M. Badat
1984	Racing with the Moon	Richard Benjamin	First collaboration with Richard Benjamin
	City Heat		Second collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1986	The Money Pit		Third collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1987	Light of Day	Paul Schrader	Third collaboration with Paul Schrader
1988	Little Nikita	Richard Benjamin	Fourth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
	My Stepmother Is an Alien		Fifth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1990	Downtown		Sixth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
	Mermaids		Seventh collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1991	Frankie and Johnny	Garry Marshall
1992	School Ties	Robert Mandel
1993	Made in America	Richard Benjamin	Eighth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1994	Milk Money		Ninth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1995	Now and Then	Lesli Linka Glatter	First collaboration with Lesli Linka Glatter
1996	Mrs. Winterbourne	Richard Benjamin	Tenth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1998	The Proposition	Lesli Linka Glatter	Second collaboration with Lesli Linka Glatter
1999	The Love Letter	Peter Chan
2001	The Shrink Is In	Richard Benjamin	Eleventh collaboration with Richard Benjamin
	Freddy Got Fingered	Tom Green
2003	Marci X	Richard Benjamin	Twelfth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
2006	Relative Strangers	Greg Glienna
	The Butterfly Effect 2	John R. Leonetti	Direct-to-video
2007	The Trouble with Romance	Gene Rhee
2010	Rollers	Romeo Antonio
2022	Ten Tricks	Richard Pagano

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1974	The Trial of Billy Jack	Tom Laughlin	Post-production coordinator
1979	Hardcore	Paul Schrader	Assistant film editor	First collaboration with Paul Schrader
1988	The Great Outdoors	Howard Deutch	Additional editor
1989	Black Rain	Ridley Scott

Additional crew

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1974	I Love You, I Love You Not	James Bryan	Production assistant
2006	The Butterfly Effect 2	John R. Leonetti	Title sequence designer	Direct-to-video

Actress

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1977	Boogievision	James Bryan	Feminist Car Pooler	Uncredited

Production manager

Year	Film	Director	Role
1977	Billy Jack Goes to Washington	Tom Laughlin	Post-production supervisor

TV movies

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1978	A Christmas to Remember	George Englund
1998	The Pentagon Wars	Richard Benjamin
	Tourist Trap
2001	The Sports Pages
	Laughter on the 23rd Floor
2004	The Goodbye Girl
2006	For the Love of a Child	Douglas Barr
	A Little Thing Called Murder	Richard Benjamin
2013	Killer Beauty	Jason Sklaver

TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Notes
2006	Masters of Horror	1 episode
2006−08	Men in Trees	16 episodes
2008	Life	3 episodes
2009	WWII in HD	10 episodes
2010	Pretty Little Liars	1 episode
2011	Vietnam in HD	4 episodes

TV shorts

Editor

Year	Film	Director
2010	Kick It Up L.A.!	Kamala Lopez Jessica O'Keefe