Biography
Geof Bartz has been the Supervising Editor for HBO Documentary Films since 1998.
Geof started his career as an assistant editor on the 1969 CBS special "Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America" and has gone on to edit, or supervise the editing of, more than 100 non-fiction films, among them the classic documentary "Pumping Iron."
Geof was the co-producer and supervising editor of the 1979 NBC Emmy winning series "Lifeline;" and he produced and co-edited the 1984 20th Century Fox feature "Stripper."
In 2000 and 2001, two short documentaries Geof cut, "King Gimp" and "Big Mama", won back-to-back Academy Awards. In 2015, his film "Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1" took home the Oscar. The following year "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" also won the gold. Additionally, he has edited four other films that have been nominated for Academy Awards.
Geof has been nominated for ten Emmys and won four. And films he has cut have received three Peabody and two Columbia-Dupont Awards.
In 2017, Geof was admitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is also a long time member of the American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.) and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
Geof taught "Introduction to Film Editing" at Columbia University from 1978-1998.
Interviews with Geof can be found in "The Art of the Documentary" by Megan Cunningham and in "First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors" by Gabriella Oldham.
Geof grew up on Detroit's East Side and graduated from the University of Notre Dame (1966, BA) and Columbia University (1969, MFA Film). He lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his wife, Lynn. His daughter Juliet is a recent graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern.
Filmography
all 58
Movies 57
Writer 3
Producer 2
Director 1
TV Shows 1
The Insurrectionist Next Door (2023)
Pelosi in the House (2022)
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (2019)
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018)
Warning: This Drug May Kill You (2017)
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? (2016)
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015)
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger (2015)
Rosie O'Donnell: A Heartfelt Stand Up (2015)
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (2014)
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (2013)
Miss You Can Do It (2013)
Hot Coffee (2011)
I Can Be President: A Kid's-Eye View (2011)
Saving Pelican 895 (2011)
The University of Sing Sing (2011)
Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010)
Poster Girl (2010)
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey (2010)
Boy Interrupted (2009)
Death on a Factory Farm (2009)
Katie Morgan's Porn 101 (2007)
To Die in Jerusalem (2007)
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007)
One Minute to Nine (2007)
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven (2007)
Hear and Now (2007)
Dealing Dogs (2006)
39 Pounds of Love (2005)
The Children of Leningradsky (2005)
Ask Dr. Baden: An Autopsy Special (2005)
Rehab (2005)
Diary of a Political Tourist (2004)
Shelter Dogs (2003)
Dwarfs: Not a Fairy Tale (2001)
Big Mama (2000)
Nuyorican Dream (2000)
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
Truman (1997)
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here (1997)
FDR (1994)
Mob Stories (1993)
Women on Trial (1992)
LBJ (1991)
The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990)
Sports Illustrated 25th Anniversary Swimsuit Video 1989 (1989)
The Wyeths: A Father and His Family (1986)
Stripper (1985)
The Camps of Death (1983)
The Body Human: The Facts For Girls (1980)
Lifeline (1978)
Pumping Iron (1977)
The Men who Made the Movies: William A. Wellman (1973)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh (1973)
Beauty Knows No Pain (1972)
The Great Radio Comedians (1971)
Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945 (1970)
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Birthday1943-12-03 (80 years old)
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