Editing
Sam O'Steen
Born — Died
1923-11-06 — 2000-10-11
Place of birth
St. Francis, Arkansas, USA
Known for
Editing
Credits
9 titles
Sam O'Steen was an American film editor and director, renowned for his collaborations with director Mike Nichols. His editing work on films like The Graduate (1967), Rosemary's Baby (1968), and Chinatown (1974) earned him critical acclaim and multiple award nominations. O'Steen's precise editing style significantly influenced the pacing and narrative structure of these classic films. He also directed several television movies, including Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975), showcasing his versatility in the industry.
Known for
7.6A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
The Graduate
1967
3.5Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
1976
9.0After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
A Brand New Life
1973
5.6Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
The Best Little Girl in the World
1981
8.0A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her life.
I Love You...Good-bye
1974
10.0When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those around him, particularly his wife.
Kids Don't Tell
1985
Film credits
Behind the camera
3.5Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
1976
9.0After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
A Brand New Life
1973
5.6Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
The Best Little Girl in the World
1981
8.0A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her life.
I Love You...Good-bye
1974
10.0When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those around him, particularly his wife.
Kids Don't Tell
1985
7.3Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
Sparkle
1976
6.3A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s. There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, a middle-aged mailman. With this encounter, life takes on a new meaning for the film's heroine.
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
1975
6.5A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.
High Risk
1976
