By Erik Pedersen, Tom Tapp Marty Cohen, a longtime editor and post-production chief who worked on more than a dozen Steven Spielberg films for Amblin and DreamWorks and whose producing credits include such hits as The Hunger Games and Godzilla, has died.
He was 67. Amblin said Cohen died May 17 of natural causes after a long battle with heart disease. Cohen began his four-decade career as a PA for Ralph Bakshi before working as an apprentice editor on the 1981 films American Pop and Pennies from Heaven.
When the latter’s editorial crew was relocated next door to the Poltergeist cutting room on the MGM lot, Cohen was low man on the Pennies low totem pole.
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