{"id":36092,"date":"2024-06-29T21:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T01:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36092"},"modified":"2024-06-29T21:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T01:07:05","slug":"rip-bud-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36092","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Bud Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z062924rip_bud_smith.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bud Smith died Thursday, June 23, 2024.\u00a0 Mr. Smith died of respiratory failure after a prolonged illness.\u00a0 Mr. Smith was 88.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Smith was an editor, director and producer.\u00a0 He was nominated for two <em>Academy Awards<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>nominee 1974 <em>Best Film Editing<\/em> &#8211; <em>The Exorcist<\/em><\/li>\n<li>nominee 1984 <em>Best Film Editing<\/em> &#8211; <em>Flashdance<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Television projects that feature Bud Smith&#8217;s editing include: <em>The Bold Men; The Incredible World of James Bond; Time-Life Specials: The March of Time<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>National Geographic Specials<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>The Big Land; Petula; Tribute to Bogart; Sticks and Bones; A Death in Canaan<\/em> and<em> C.A.T. Squad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Feature film projects that feature Bud Smith&#8217;s editing include: <em>Putney Swope; Sorcerer; The Brinks Job; Cruising; Personal Best; Flashdance; Deal of the Century; The Karate Kid; Poltergeist II: The Other Side; Some Kind of Wonderful; Gross Anatomy; Darkman; The Replacements; Ladder 49<\/em> and <em>The Game of Their Lives<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Television projects that feature Bud Smith&#8217;s directing include: <em>C.A.T. Squad\u00a0<\/em>(2nd unit);<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Feature films that feature Bud Smith&#8217;s directing include: Johnny Be Good; <em>Sorcerer\u00a0<\/em>(2nd unit); <em>Cat People<\/em> (2nd unit); <em>To Live and Die in LA<\/em> (2nd unit); <em>Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!<\/em> (2nd unit); <em>Virus<\/em> (2nd unit) and <em>Driftwood<\/em> (2nd unit).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favorite film edited by Bud Smith is The Exorcist.\u00a0 If the only films he edited were <em>The Exorcist<\/em> and <em>Flashdance<\/em>, his reputation as a great editor would be cemented.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a testament to Mr. Smith&#8217;s talent that he branched out into directing and producing.\u00a0 Bud Smith was so good that director William Friedkin collaborated with him on six films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out thoughts and prayers go out to Bud Smith&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bud Smith died Thursday, June 23, 2024.\u00a0 Mr. Smith died of respiratory failure after a prolonged illness.\u00a0 Mr. Smith was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,57,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-rip","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36093,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092\/revisions\/36093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}