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

Film credits

Behind the camera

Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby poster
3.5

Baby 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

A Brand New Life poster
9.0

After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.

A Brand New Life

1973

The Best Little Girl in the World poster
5.6

Casey 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

I Love You...Good-bye poster
8.0

A 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

Kids Don't Tell poster
10.0

When 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

Sparkle poster
7.3

Three 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

Queen of the Stardust Ballroom poster
6.3

A 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

High Risk poster
6.5

A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.

High Risk

1976