George Folsey Jr, the veteran movie editor and producer who labored carefully with John Landis on motion pictures together with Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America and the ill-fated Twilight Zone: The Film in addition to the long-lasting music video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” has died. He was 85.
The information was confirmed Wednesday by his son, fellow editor Ryan Folsey, on social media.
Folsey Jr was the son of George Folsey, the 13-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer whose credit included Meet Me In St. Louis, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Government Suite and The Balcony.
As an editor, Folsey Jr started his profession slicing an episode of The Monkees TV sequence in 1967. One among his first characteristic jobs was 1973’s Black Caesar starring Fred Williamson, occurring to edit a number of pics in that style together with by Arthur Marks.
That very same yr, Folsey Jr edited and was an govt producer on Schlock, a sci-fi horror comedy that marked the characteristic debut of a 21-year-old named John Landis. It began a collaboration that might ultimately embody modifying Landis’ pics The Kentucky Fried Film (1977), Nationwide Lampoon’s Animal Home (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980) and the “Thriller” music video Landis directed for Michael Jackson, which grew to become a worldwide phenomenon when it debuted in 1983.
Folsey additionally produced the Landis motion pictures An American Werewolf In London (1981), Buying and selling Locations (1983) with Eddie Murphy, Spies Like Us (1985) and Three Amigos! (1986), in addition to 1985’s Clue which Landis co-wrote. Fosley edited and produced the Landis-Murphy reteam Coming to America which hit theaters in 1988.
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Folsey Jr was an assistant producer on Twilight Zone: The Film, on which a helicopter crashed through the filming of Landis’ section of the anthology movie in July 1982 in Santa Clarita, CA. The crash, later discovered by the Nationwide Transportation Security Board to have been brought on by explosives used within the scene detonating too near the low-flying copter, killed actor Vic Morrow and youngster actors Renee Shin-Yi Chen and Myca Dinh Le.
Landis, Folsey Jr, the pilot, the manufacturing supervisor and and explosives knowledgeable have been all acquitted of manslaughter costs within the subsequent trial.
Folsey Jr went on to edit pics together with Shawn Levy’s Cheaper By the Dozen (2003) and The Pink Panther (2006), each starring Steve Martin; Eli Roth’s Hostel (2005) and its sequel Hostel II (2007); Paul Feig’s Unaccompanied Minors (2006); and Steve Pink’s Sizzling Tub Time Machine (2010). His producing credit included Peter Bogdanovich’s A Factor Referred to as Love (1993) and Grumpier Outdated Males (1995).
His final credited modifying job per IMDb was this yr’s indie drama Summer season Rain.
