14 Facts About Tom Rolf

Ernst Ragnar Rolf, better known as Tom Rolf, was a Swedish film editor who worked on at least 48 feature films in a career spanning over fifty years.

Tom Rolf served on the Board of Governors at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for five terms, representing the editing branch from 1992 through 2007.

Tom Rolf received the ACE Career Achievement Award in 2003.

Ernst R Rolf was born in Stockholm, Sweden on New Year's Eve, 1931, the son of actor Ernst Rolf and Norwegian-born actress Tutta Rolf.

Tom Rolf worked as a ski patrolman and was a seaman for the Norwegian Merchant Marine before emigrating to the United States, after which he spent three years in the United States Marine Corps.

On July 14,2014, Tom Rolf died at his home in France due to complications following hip surgery.

At the start of his career, Tom Rolf spent a then-required eight years serving as an apprentice and assistant editor.

When Levy-Gardner-Laven began production on the Western television series The Big Valley, they brought in Tom Rolf to serve as one of the editors of the show.

Tom Rolf edited nine episodes of the first season, which ran from 1965 to 1966.

The latter was the first of four films Tom Rolf would edit for director Lamont Johnson; their subsequent collaborations were The Last American Hero, Visit to a Chief's Son and the 1975 TV movie Fear on Trial.

The turning point in Tom Rolf's career came in 1975 when he and Melvin Shapiro were recruited by director Martin Scorsese to edit his crime drama Taxi Driver.

Tom Rolf edited three films for director John Frankenheimer in the mid-to-late 1970s: French Connection II, Black Sunday and Prophecy.

In 2003, Tom Rolf re-teamed with Blue Collar and Hardcore director Paul Schrader to work on Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist.

The last film Tom Rolf edited was the Russian Alexander Kolchak biopic Admiral, released in 2008.