Bud S. Smith, Editor of ‘Sorcerer,’ ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Flashdance,’ Dies at 88

Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated movie editor who was an everyday collaborator with William Friedkin and whose different credit embrace “Putney Swope,” “Flashdance” and “The Karate Child,” died Sunday at his dwelling in Studio Metropolis, Calif. on account of respiratory failure after a chronic sickness. He was 88.

Smith’s demise was confirmed by his spouse, dialogue editor Lucy Coldsnow-Smith.

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Over a profession spanning 5 a long time, Smith was a two-time Academy Award nominee: in 1984 for Adrian Lyne’s romance fantasia “Flashdance,” and in 1974 for William Friedkin’s horror basic “The Exorcist,” which Smith shared a nomination for with Evan A. Lottman and Norman Homosexual. Smith gained the BAFTA award for greatest modifying for “Flashdance” and obtained 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 modifying 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 Dwell and Die in L.A.,” together with its borderline hallucinatory automotive chase showstopper, in addition to the director’s 1977 survival thriller “Sorcerer,” celebrated for its sustained rigidity in its depiction of 4 truckers transporting a load of explosives in South America.

Different notable modifying credit embrace 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 Photos beneath exec Casey Silver.

Smith was additionally an affiliate producer on “Sorcerer” and “The Karate Child”; he was a co-producer on “To Dwell 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 inventive collaborator.

Born on Dec. 6, 1935 in Tulsa, Okla., Smith’s first credit score within the business got here in 1965 for the TV movie “The Daring Males.” He was recognized with throat most cancers in 2012.

He’s survived by his spouse of 33 years, Lucy.

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