# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-chew
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:32:53.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-chew"
name: "Richard Chew"
slug: "richard-chew"
description: "Richard Franklin Chew is an American film editor, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on Star Wars (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas. Other notable films include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Risky Business (1983), Waiting to Exhale (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), and I Am Sam (2001). His career over a variety of films spans more than four decades."
tagline: "American Film Editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Chew%2C_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.13
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.916892
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0156816/"
    handle:    "nm0156816"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%86%E6%9F%A5%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%91%A8"
    title: "理查德·周"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%88_(%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1)"
    title: "ريتشارد شو (مونتير)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%88_(%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "ريتشارد شو (مونتير من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chew"
    title: "Richard Chew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chew"
    title: "Richard Chew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "ریچارد چیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chew"
    title: "Richard Chew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chew"
    title: "Richard Chew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A6"
    title: "リチャード・チュウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chew"
    title: "Richard Chew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542167"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8425"
    title: "Richard Chew"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump