Film editor Hubert de la Bouillerie, of 'Woodstock' and 'Witches of Eastwick', dies at 75

Mixed · 2Hubert de la Bouillerie, a film editor with credits including Woodstock, Rollerball, The Witches of Eastwick and Tango & Cash, died on Aug. 8 in Los Angeles at age 75. 1 2 Mixed · 2The news emerged in late October: The Hollywood Reporter attributed the announcement to his friend Robert Folk, while Deadline cited the family, quoting his sister Annie Goeke-de la Bouillerie, who said he had battled a long-term illness and was in hospice for the last two weeks of his life. 1 2 Mixed · 2He was born on Jan. 28, 1951, in France and was educated there. The Hollywood Reporter says he was the eldest child of Baron Henri de la Bouillerie and Elinor Marcus, from a family with ties to the Loire Valley and the Château de Villandry, and that he attended the École des Roches; Deadline adds that he served in the French military and spent most of his adult and professional life in the U.S., particularly Los Angeles. 1 2

Mixed · 2His early work was on Woodstock (1970). The Hollywood Reporter describes an additional editing credit on the documentary, whose credited editors included Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, while Deadline describes him as an editor on the film and notes that Schoonmaker received an Oscar nomination for Best Film Editing. 1 2 Mixed · 2He then worked as an assistant editor on films including Rollerball (1975), And Justice for All and Firefox, and on TV's Roots: The Next Generations and Supertrain, before his first editor credit on the 1985 comedy Doin' Time, according to Deadline. 2 1 Mixed · 2As a feature editor he cut The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Police Academy 5 (1988), Police Academy 6 (1989), Tango & Cash (1989) and Other People's Money (1991), as well as Krush Groove, Highlander II: The Quickening, Mo' Money, Blank Check and Celtic Pride; Deadline says he cut more than 30 movies and TV programs over three decades. 1 2

Left · 1Folk said de la Bouillerie was the Warner Bros. editor whom studio chiefs Bob Daly and Terry Semel most relied on to review the final edit on "the vast majority of features" from Burbank in the 1980s and '90s. 1 Mixed · 2He also directed, including the telefilm The Right to Remain Silent (1996), The Apocalypse (1997) and a 2005 episode of ABC's Boston Legal. 1 2 Mixed · 2He wrote a 2012 gothic novel, Of Love and Evil: The Birth, and was an accomplished photographer. 1 2

Mixed · 2He is survived by his children Jacqueline and Alexandre and siblings Annie, Caroline, Juliette, Diane, Helie and Alban. He was married twice, first to Hilary Saltzman, daughter of James Bond producer Harry Saltzman, and then to producer and executive Debbie Robins de la Bouillerie, who worked on many of his projects and died in 2015. 1 2