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Editor
Gender
Male
Birthday
26 October
Location
New York, United States
Edit pageBarry Malkin
Biography
Barry M. Malkin (born October 26, 1938, in New York City, USA) was an American film editor known for his long-standing collaboration with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. He began his career as an apprentice to editor Dede Allen on Elia Kazan's America America (1963) and later worked as an assistant editor on Lilith (1964). His first major editing credits included The Patty Duke Show and The Fat Spy (1966).
He established a close professional relationship with Coppola while editing The Rain People (1969). He subsequently worked on several of the director's films, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Godfather Saga (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), Rumble Fish (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The Godfather Part III (1990), Jack (1996) and The Rainmaker (1997).
His other notable editing credits included Big (1988), The Freshman (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), It Could Happen to You (1994) and Isn't She Great (2000). He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, for The Cotton Club (1984) and The Godfather Part III (1990), along with a BAFTA nomination for The Godfather Part II. He died on April 4, 2019, in New York City, aged 80.
