Biography
Neil Travis was an American film and television editor. He was born in Los Angeles and earned a bachelor's degree in film and theatre arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his career as an assistant editor at Paramount Studios in his early twenties and received his first feature credit on The Traveling Executioner (1970).
Travis edited the miniseries Roots (1977), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award, and the feature film Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Other credits include Jaws 2 (1978), No Way Out (1987), Cocktail (1988), Patriot Games (1992), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Outbreak (1995), Bicentennial Man (1999) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). He was a member of the American Cinema Editors and received its Career Achievement Award in 2010.
He died in Arroyo Grande, California, in 2012.
