Biography
William Steinkamp (9 June 1953 – 25 March 2025) was an American film editor. He began his career as an assistant editor to his father, Fredric Steinkamp, and went on to receive more than twenty editing credits.
Steinkamp maintained a long collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, co-editing or editing nearly all of Pollack’s films from Tootsie (1982) to The Interpreter (2005). He also edited several films for director Gary Fleder, including Kiss the Girls (1997) and The Express (2008). Among his other credits are Scent of a Woman (1992), The Firm (1993), A Time to Kill (1996) and August Rush (2007).
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Tootsie (1982), Out of Africa (1985) and The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), and was a member of the American Cinema Editors.
