John F. Burnett

John Forbes Burnett (March 5, 1934 – October 24, 2024) was an American film editor.^[1]

John F. Burnett
Born	John Forbes Burnett (1934-03-05)March 5, 1934 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died	October 24, 2024(2024-10-24) (aged 90) Lincoln, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1968–2024

Burnett died in Lincoln, California on October 24, 2024, at the age of 90.^[2]

At the 97th Academy Awards, his name was mentioned in the In Memoriam section.^[3]

Filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1968	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Robert Ellis Miller	First collaboration with Robert Ellis Miller
1970	Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came	Hy Averback
	The Owl and the Pussycat	Herbert Ross	First collaboration with Herbert Ross
1971	Wild Rovers	Blake Edwards	Second collaboration with Blake Edwards
1972	The Culpepper Cattle Co.	Dick Richards
1973	The Way We Were	Sydney Pollack
1974	The Girl from Petrovka	Robert Ellis Miller	Second collaboration with Robert Ellis Miller
1975	The Sunshine Boys	Herbert Ross	Second collaboration with Herbert Ross
1976	Murder by Death	Robert Moore
1977	The Domino Principle	Stanley Kramer
	The Goodbye Girl	Herbert Ross	Third collaboration with Herbert Ross
1978	Grease	Randal Kleiser
1979	...And Justice for All	Norman Jewison
1980	Can't Stop the Music	Nancy Walker
1981	Death Hunt	Peter Hunt
	Rich and Famous	George Cukor	Second collaboration with George Cukor
1982	Grease 2	Patricia Birch
1984	Irreconcilable Differences	Charles Shyer
1986	A Fine Mess	Blake Edwards	Third collaboration with Blake Edwards
1989	Leviathan	George P. Cosmatos
1991	Bed & Breakfast	Robert Ellis Miller	Third collaboration with Robert Ellis Miller
1992	Class Act	Randall Miller
	Leap of Faith	Richard Pearce

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes	Other notes
1957	The Spirit of St. Louis	Billy Wilder	Assistant editor	Uncredited
	The Helen Morgan Story	Michael Curtiz
1958	Fort Dobbs	Gordon Douglas
1959	The FBI Story	Mervyn LeRoy			First collaboration with Mervyn LeRoy
1960	Cash McCall	Joseph Pevney
	Tall Story	Joshua Logan
1962	The Music Man	Morton DaCosta
	Gypsy	Mervyn LeRoy			Second collaboration with Mervyn LeRoy
1964	My Fair Lady	George Cukor			First collaboration with George Cukor
1965	The Great Race	Blake Edwards	Additional editor		First collaboration with Blake Edwards
1966	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Mike Nichols	Assistant editor
1978	Moment by Moment	Jane Wagner	Supervising film editor
1983	Staying Alive	Sylvester Stallone	Editor

Thanks

Year	Film	Director	Role
1997	Traveller	Jack N. Green	Thanks

Documentaries

Thanks

Year	Film	Director	Role
2017	The Fabulous Allan Carr	Jeffrey Schwarz	Special thanks

TV movies

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1975	Love Among the Ruins	George Cukor
	Promise Him Anything	Edward Parone
1986	Between Two Women	Jon Avnet
1991	Fourth Story	Ivan Passer
1993	Killer Rules	Robert Ellis Miller
1994	Pointman

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role
1985	Surviving	Waris Hussein	Supervising editor
1991	Not of This World	Jon Hess

TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Notes
1983	The Winds of War	7 episodes
1988−89	War and Remembrance	12 episodes
1996−97	Baywatch Nights	10 episodes

Producer

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1995	Pointman	Co-executive producer Co-producer	21 episodes
1995−97	Baywatch Nights	Producer	44 episodes