# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-stanford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:49:35.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-stanford"
name: "Thomas Stanford"
slug: "thomas-stanford"
description: "Thomas Gerald Stanford was an American film and television editor with about sixteen feature film credits. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 34th Academy Awards for the film West Side Story (1961), which was only his second credit as an editor. Long afterwards, West Side Story was listed as the 38th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. The film's editing is also featured in Louis Giannetti's textbook Understanding Movies."
tagline: "American film editor (1924-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1924"
deathDate: "2017-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.42
  momentum:             8.543859649122806
  historical:           7.871814666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822201/"
    handle:    "nm0822201"
sources:
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    title: "Thomas Stanford"
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    title: "توماس ستانفورد"
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    title: "توماس ستانفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanford"
    title: "Thomas Stanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanford_(film_editor)"
    title: "Thomas Stanford (film editor)"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "تامس استنفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanford"
    title: "Thomas Stanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanford"
    title: "Thomas Stanford"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37880"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump