Robert C. Jones, the esteemed film editor who shaped such classics as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Love Story, The Last Detail and Bound for Glory and shared a screenplay Oscar for Coming Home, has died.
He was 84. Jones died Monday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with Lewy body dementia, his daughter Leslie Jones, an Oscar-nominated film editor just like her dad, told The Hollywood Reporter.
She called him her mentor, "a gentle and generous man and a comedic genius. He truly was the sweetest guy." His father, Harmon Jones, was an Oscar-nominated film editor, too, honored for his work on Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1947).
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