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Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated movie editor who was an everyday collaborator with William Friedkin and whose different credit embody “Putney Swope,” “Flashdance” and “The Karate Child,” died Sunday at his house in Studio Metropolis, Calif. resulting from respiratory failure after a chronic sickness. He was 88.
Smith’s dying was confirmed by his spouse, dialogue editor Lucy Coldsnow-Smith.
Over a profession spanning 5 many years, Smith was a two-time Academy Award nominee: in 1984 for Adrian Lyne’s romance fantasia “Flashdance,” and in 1975 for William Friedkin’s horror traditional “The Exorcist,” which Smith shared a nomination for with Evan A. Lottman and Norman Homosexual. Smith gained the BAFTA award for greatest enhancing for “Flashdance” and acquired a profession achievement award from American Cinema Editors in 2008.
After starting in tv and dealing beneath David L. Wolper within the ’60s, Smith’s first characteristic enhancing credit score got here on the finish of the last decade with Robert Downey, Sr.’s seminal satire “Putney Swope.” Smith labored with Downey on a number of of his early experimental movies.
Smith was the first editor for the Iraq sequences that open “The Exorcist” — a job that started an everyday collaborative partnership with director Friedkin. Smith edited his 1985 crime movie “To Stay and Die in L.A.,” together with its borderline hallucinatory automobile chase showstopper, in addition to the director’s 1977 survival thriller “Sorcerer,” celebrated for its sustained pressure in its depiction of 4 truckers transporting a load of explosives in South America.
Different notable enhancing credit embody Friedkin’s “Cruising,” the Sam Raimi breakout “Darkman,” Robert Towne’s manufacturing woe-laden “Private Greatest” and the horror sequel “Poltergeist II: The Different Facet.” Within the ’90s, Smith labored as a movie physician and advisor, most frequently on the slate at Common Footage beneath exec Casey Silver.
Smith was additionally an affiliate producer on “Sorcerer” and “The Karate Child”; he was a co-producer on “To Stay and Die in L.A.” and on the 1999 sci-fi thriller “Virus.” He directed the 1988 highschool soccer comedy “Johnny Be Good,” starring Anthony Michael Corridor and Robert Downey Jr., the son of Smith’s earliest creative collaborator.
Born on Dec. 6, 1935 in Tulsa, Okla., Smith’s first credit score within the trade got here in 1965 for the TV movie “The Daring Males.” He was identified with throat most cancers in 2012.
He’s survived by his spouse of 33 years, Lucy.