About

Known credits:
36
Birthday:
1959-06-24
Place of birth:
Santa Monica, California, USA
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John Gilroy

Overview

John M. Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American film editor whose work includes Michael Clayton, The Bourne Legacy, Warrior, Pacific Rim, Nightcrawler, and Suicide Squad.

Gilroy was born in 1959 in Santa Monica, California. He is the son of Ruth Dorothy (Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, a filmmaker. He is the twin brother of screenwriter-director Dan Gilroy and the brother of screenwriter-director Tony Gilroy. He has a daughter, Carolyn, born in 1990.

John did not originally plan to enter the film industry. He studied government at Dartmouth College with the intention of continuing on to attend law school but eventually decided to pursue a career in film rather than law. He moved to New York City, where he worked as a bartender for two years before landing his first job as an assistant editor under Rick Shaine on the 1984 adaptation of Herb Gardner's play The Goodbye People. He was an editorial assistant on several films made throughout the 1980s, including Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Gardens of Stone (1987). His first film as the primary editor was The Luckiest Man in the World (1989), which was written and directed by his father.

Gilroy also edited films including Billy Madison (1995), Shadow Magic (2000), Suspect Zero (2004), and Trust the Man (2005). He worked with his brother Tony Gilroy, a screenwriter and director, for the first time on Tony's film Michael Clayton (2007). The film received seven Academy Award nominations, and John's editing was nominated for a BAFTA Award and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. John and Tony later collaborated on Duplicity (2009) and The Bourne Legacy (2012). In 2014 John worked with his other brother, fraternal twin Dan Gilroy, also a screenwriter and director, as the editor of Nightcrawler, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing. He has edited films for every member of his immediate family—his father and both brothers—except his mother.[7] He has also worked often with director Gavin O'Connor and edited Phillip Noyce's Salt (2010) and Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013).

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Known for

Acting

2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Actor Additional Voices (voice) 74
Good
2011 Redemption: Bringing Warrior to Life Actor 59
Average
2003 Narc: The Visual Trip Actor Self N/A
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Production

2022 Andor Production Executive Producer 82
Very good
2009 Duplicity Production Co-Producer 58
Average
1989 The Luckiest Man in the World Production Associate Producer N/A
N/A

Sound

1989 An Innocent Man Sound Assistant Sound Editor 59
Average

Editing

2019 Velvet Buzzsaw Editing Editor 54
Average
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq. Editing Editor 62
Fair
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Editing Editor 74
Good
2016 Suicide Squad Editing Editor 59
Average
2014 Nightcrawler Editing Editor 76
Good
2013 Pacific Rim Editing Editor 68
Fair
2012 The Bourne Legacy Editing Editor 62
Fair
2011 Warrior Editing Editor 76
Good
2010 Salt Editing Editor 63
Fair
2009 Duplicity Editing Editor 58
Average
2008 Pride and Glory Editing Editor 61
Fair
2007 Michael Clayton Editing Editor 65
Fair
2005 Trust the Man Editing Editor 57
Average
2004 Suspect Zero Editing Editor 57
Average
2004 Miracle Editing Editor 65
Fair
2002 Ticker Editing Editor 59
Average
2002 The Perfect You Editing Editor 58
Average
2002 Narc Editing Editor 63
Fair
2001 Last Ball Editing Editor 58
Average
2000 Table One Editing Editor 58
Average
1999 Tumbleweeds Editing Editor 59
Average
1997 A Bedtime Story Editing Editor N/A
N/A
1995 Billy Madison Editing Editor 61
Fair
1994 The Ref Editing Associate Editor 61
Fair
1990 Andre's Mother Editing Assistant Editor N/A
N/A
1987 Gardens of Stone Editing Assistant Editor 59
Average
1985 The Gig Editing First Assistant Editor 59
Average
1984 The Goodbye People Editing Additional Editor N/A
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Faster, Cheaper, Better Editing Editor N/A
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