Biography
Howard E. Smith is an American film editor. Born on 5 December 1945 in Clearfield, Utah, he grew up in Chicago and studied at Northwestern University in the late 1960s, where he wrote, directed, shot and edited over fifty short films. He received one of the first AFI grants to independent filmmakers and made the award-winning short "Still?".
In 1970 he attended the AFI Center for Advanced Film Studies in Los Angeles as a directing and cinematography fellow. Smith has edited numerous feature films, including The Abyss (1989), Point Break (1991), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Strange Days (1995) and Dante's Peak (1997). He has worked repeatedly with directors Kathryn Bigelow and James Foley.
