Donn Cambern Dies: ‘Easy Rider’ Editor & ‘Romancing The Stone’ Oscar Nominee Who Led Editors Guild Was 93
deadline.comDonn Cambern, the Oscar-nominated Romancing the Stone film editor whose credits also include Easy Rider, The Last Picture Show and Ghostbusters II and was a longtime president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, died Wednesday, his family told the guild.
He was 93. Born on October 9, 1929, in Los Angeles, Cambern came from a showbiz family. His father was in the music-publishing business, and his mother played harp on movie soundtracks including Top Hat for the RKO Pictures orchestra.
He graduated from UCLA in 1952 and landed a gig at Disney as a messenger. He began his career in 1960s television, serving as music editor for episodes of I Spy, That Girl and The Ghost and Mrs.
Muir along with scores of episodes of both The Andy Griffith Show and its spinoff Gomer Pyle, USMC. Cambern pivoted to features by the late ’60s, and among his first projects was Easy Rider, the 1969 counterculture road-trip classic starring Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson and its director, Dennis Hopper.
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