Biography
Bill Pankow is an American film editor. He graduated from NYU Film School in 1974 and began his career in assistant and associate editor roles, including on Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and early Brian De Palma films.
Pankow has edited ten films for director Brian De Palma, beginning with Body Double (1984) and including The Untouchables (1987), Carlito's Way (1993), Snake Eyes (1998), Femme Fatale (2002) and The Black Dahlia (2006). For Femme Fatale he received the Seattle Film Critics Society award for best editing. He is a member of the American Cinema Editors.
Other credits include work with Abel Ferrara on The Funeral (1996), Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers (1990), and films such as Gifted (2017), Let's Be Cops (2014) and American Ultra (2015).
