# Edward M. Abroms

Edward M. Abroms (May 6, 1935 – February 13, 2018) was an American film editor and TV director.
Abroms was born and raised in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He studied film at the University of Southern California before dropping out to go to work at Republic Studios.
He was nominated at the 56th Academy Awards for his work on the film Blue Thunder in the category of Academy Award for Best Film Editing, his nomination was shared with Frank Morriss.
Abroms has worked with American film director Steven Spielberg on Night Gallery and The Sugarland Express and was bestowed the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 2006.
He received Primetime Emmy Awards for editing the My Sweet Charlie World Premiere in 1970 and the Columbo NBC Mystery Movie in 1972 He shared the 2006 American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. He also directed for the 1978-1979 NBC television series The Eddie Capra Mysteries.
On February 13, 2018, Abroms died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California. He was 82.
He has also worked as an editor in Sam Peckinpah’s suspense thriller film The Osterman Weekend (1983).

## Career

Abroms had joined Review Productions (present Universal Studios) as an apprentice editor after a short stint at Technicolor. He later got an opportunity to edit the 1966 episode of NBC's Tarzan, which had featured Ron Ely. He earned his first Emmy Award for the 1970 NBC telefilm My Sweet Charlie, directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Patty Duke.

## Personal life

Abroms married Colleen, with whom he has two daughters, Cindy and Lynn, and one son, Ed Abroms Jr.

## Selected filmography

Editor :
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
| 1970 | Tarzan's Deadly Silence | Robert L. Friend | |
| 1972 | The Groundstar Conspiracy | Lamont Johnson | First collaboration with Lamont Johnson |
| 1972 | You'll Like My Mother | Lamont Johnson | Second collaboration with Lamont Johnson |
| 1974 | The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | |
| 1983 | Blue Thunder | John Badham | |
| 1983 | The Osterman Weekend | Sam Peckinpah | |
| 1987 | Cherry 2000 | Steve De Jarnatt | |
| 1988 | Plain Clothes | Martha Coolidge | |
| 1988 | Cohen and Tate | Eric Red | |
| 1994 | Street Fighter | Steven E. de Souza | |
| 1997 | T.N.T. | Robert Radler | |
Editorial department :
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
| 1985 | The Jewel of the Nile | Lewis Teague | Additional editor |

### TV movies

Editor :
| Year | Film | Director |
| 1969 | Night Gallery | Boris SagalSteven SpielbergBarry Shear |
| 1970 | My Sweet Charlie | Lamont Johnson |
| 1970 | Dial Hot Line | Jerry Thorpe |
| 1970 | Berlin Affair | David Lowell Rich |
| 1971 | Ransom for a Dead Man | Richard Irving |
| 1971 | Lock, Stock and Barrel | Jerry Thorpe |
| 1971 | The Impatient Heart | John Badham |
| 1972 | That Certain Summer | Lamont Johnson |
| 1973 | Savage | Steven Spielberg |
| 1979 | Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker | Ted Post |
| 1981 | The Patricia Neal Story | Anthony HarveyAnthony Page |
| 1984 | The Guardian | David Greene |
| 1986 | Florida Straits | Mike Hodges |
| 1988 | Glory Days | Robert Conrad |
| 1989 | Nightlife | Daniel Taplitz |
| 1990 | Columbo: Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo | Vincent McEveety |
| 1990 | Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 | Philip Saville |
| 1991 | Aftermath: A Test of Love | Glenn Jordan |
| 1991 | Payoff | Stuart Cooper |
| 1991 | One Special Victory | Stuart Cooper |
| 1992 | Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive | John Patterson |
| 1993 | Taking the Heat | Tom Mankiewicz |
Editorial department :
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
| 1982 | The Executioner's Song | Lawrence Schiller | Editorial consultant |
Director :
| Year | Film |
| 1975 | The Impostor |
| 1978 | The Case of the Baltimore Girls |
| 1978 | The $100,000 Bill |
| 1980 | The Sultan and the Rock Star |
Producer :
| Year | Film | Director | Credit |
| 1991 | One Special Victory | Stuart Cooper | Associate producer |

### TV series

Editor :
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1968 | Untamed World | 1 episode |
| 1966−68 | Tarzan | 14 episodes |
| 1968−69 | Ironside | 4 episodes |
| 1969 | The Bold Ones: The Protectors | 1 episode |
| 1969 | Night Gallery | 1 episode |
| 1970 | It Takes a Thief | 1 episode |
| 1970 | The Virginian | 1 episode |
| 1971 | Columbo | 2 episodes |
| 1975 | Ellery Queen | 2 episodes |
| 1987 | Jake and the Fatman | 1 episode |
Director :
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1972 | Alias Smith and Jones | 1 episode |
| 1973 | Night Gallery | 1 episode |
| 1973 | McMillan & Wife | 1 episode |
| 1973 | Griff | 2 episodes |
| 1972−73 | Columbo | 2 episodes |
| 1974 | Doc Elliot | 1 episode |
| 1974 | The Rookies | 1 episode |
| 1974 | Get Christie Love! | 1 episode |
| 1975 | Apple's Way | 1 episode |
| 1975 | Archer | 1 episode |
| 1975 | Cannon | 1 episode |
| 1973−75 | Police Story | 2 episodes |
| 1975−76 | Doctors' Hospital | 4 episodes |
| 1976 | Ellery Queen | 1 episode |
| 1976 | Switch | 2 episodes |
| 1977 | The Feather & Father Gang | 1 episode |
| 1977 | CHiPs | 1 episode |
| 1977 | Man from Atlantis | 1 episode |
| 1977 | The Six Million Dollar Man | 2 episodes |
| 1976−78 | Kojak | 4 episodes |
| 1978 | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | 1 episode |
| 1978 | ABC Weekend Special | 1 episode |
| 1978 | The Eddie Capra Mysteries | 2 episodes |
| 1978−79 | David Cassidy: Man Undercover | 2 episodes |
| 1979 | Mrs. Columbo | 1 episode |
| 1979 | Hawaii Five-O | 1 episode |
| 1979 | Salvage 1 | 2 episodes |
| 1979 | Doctors' Private Lives | 4 episodes |
| 1980 | The Chisholms | 2 episodes |
| 1980 | Disney's Wonderful World | 1 episode |
| 1981 | Nero Wolfe | 3 episodes |
| 1985 | Murder, She Wrote | 1 episode |