Biography

Lou Lombardo was born on February 15, 1932 in Missouri, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for The Wild Bunch (1969), Moonstruck (1987) and Up in Smoke (1978). He died on May 8, 2002 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Landed the enviable role of cutter on Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) after Sam had seen his groundbreaking technique in My Mommy Got Lost (1967), an episode of The Felony Squad (1966) directed by George McCowan. Lombardo had taken footage of villain Joe Don Baker being gunned down by police, printed each frame of Baker's fall to the ground three times on an optical printer, and intercut this footage with shots of cops shooting and running for cover in real time. Peckinpah was so spellbound by this sequence,he hired Lombardo right away.

Began as Robert Altman's cameraman working on training films for the Calvin Co. He then joined Republic as a cameraman in 1956. He subsequently served an eight-year apprenticeship as an editor at Revue Studios. He eventually went on to edit five films for Altman, including McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971).

Father of editor Tony Lombardo