George Folsey Jr.

George Joseph Folsey Jr. was an American film producer, editor, and assistant director.

Life and career

Folsey was born in Los Angeles on January 17, 1939, the son of George J. Folsey. He was educated at Pomona College.
Folsey began his career at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, before moving into film. He frequently worked with director John Landis in the 1980s. In 1987, he was acquitted in a manslaughter case brought over the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Folsey and his wife, Belinda, had two children. He died from pneumonia in Los Angeles on December 29, 2024, at the age of 85.
At the 97th Academy Awards, his name was mentioned in the In Memoriam section.

Significant collaborations

With John Landis

Folsey Jr. edited or co-edited six Landis films: all productions from Schlock to The Blues Brothers, Thriller and Coming to America. Folsey produced eleven films directed or co-directed by Landis. He was also second unit director on Landis' Trading Places, Into the Night and Three Amigos projects. His son, editor Ryan Folsey appeared in Landis's first feature film Schlock. Folsey's name is mentioned in a scene in Trading Places when Louis Winthorpe gives his coat to the coat attendant and says "Good morning, Folsey."

Selected filmography

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1979	Portrait of a Hitman	Allan A. Buckhantz	Supervising editor
1979	The Great Santini	Lewis John Carlino	Consulting editor
2001	Super Troopers	Jay Chandrasekhar	Additional editor	First collaboration with Jay Chandrasekhar
2007	Love and Mary	Elizabeth Harrison	Supervising editor
2008	Igor	Tony Leondis	Additional editor

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1983	Trading Places	John Landis	Extra	Uncredited

Year	Film	Director	Role
1972	Glass Houses	Alexander Singer	Camera operator

Year	Film	Director
1972	Glass Houses	Alexander Singer

Year	Film	Director	Credit	Notes
1972	Glass Houses	Alexander Singer	Producer
1973	Schlock	John Landis	Executive producer
1980	The Blues Brothers	John Landis	Associate producer
1981	An American Werewolf in London	John Landis	Producer	Fifth collaboration with John Landis
1983	Trading Places	John Landis	Executive producer	Sixth collaboration with John Landis
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	John Landis	Associate producer	Prologue / "Time Out" segment Seventh collaboration with John Landis
1985	Into the Night	John Landis	Producer	Eighth collaboration with John Landis
1985	Spies Like Us	John Landis	Producer	Ninth collaboration with John Landis
1985	Clue	Jonathan Lynn	Executive producer	First collaboration with Jonathan Lynn
1986	Three Amigos	John Landis	Producer	Tenth collaboration with John Landis
1987	Amazon Women on the Moon		Executive producer	Eleventh collaboration with John Landis
1988	Coming to America	John Landis	Producer
1993	The Thing Called Love	Peter Bogdanovich	Executive producer
1994	Greedy	Jonathan Lynn	Executive producer	Second collaboration with Jonathan Lynn
1995	Grumpier Old Men	Howard Deutch	Co-producer
2014	Dead Within	Ben Wagner	Producer
2020	Reboot Camp	Ivo Raza	Executive producer
2021	Death Link	David Lipper	Executive producer

Year	Film	Director	Role
1983	Trading Places	John Landis	Second unit director
1985	Into the Night	John Landis	Second unit director
1986	Three Amigos	John Landis	Second unit director

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
2002	Cabin Fever	Eli Roth	Very special thanks	First collaboration with Eli Roth
2004	Club Dread	Jay Chandrasekhar	Thanks	Second collaboration with Jay Chandrasekhar
2008	The Rainbow Tribe	Christopher R. Watson	Very special thanks
2011	Cellmates	Jesse Baget	Special thanks

;Direct-to-video films

Year	Film	Director
2006	Pledge This!
2011	Hostel: Part III	Scott Spiegel

;Documentaries

Year	Film	Director
1977	Exploring the Unknown	Alan Neuman

Year	Film	Director	Role
1970	Elvis: That's the Way It Is	Denis Sanders	Associate film editor

Year	Film	Director	Role
2004	Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen	Michael Palm	Thanks

;Shorts

Year	Film	Director
2007	Thanksgiving	Eli Roth
2007	Latchkey's Lament	Troy Nixey
2008	Hole in the Paper Sky	Bill Purple
2010	Despair	Alex Prager
2016	One World	Julien Seri

Year	Film	Director	Role
2000	The Right Hook	Luke Greenfield	Additional editor

;Television films

Year	Film	Director
1977	It Happened at Lakewood Manor	Robert Scheerer
1979	Freedom Road	Ján Kadár

;Television pilots

Year	Film	Director	Credit
2003	Fargo	Kathy Bates	Producer

;Television series

Year	Title	Notes
1967	The Monkees	1 episode
1973−74	Shaft	4 episodes
1979	Freedom Road	2 episodes

;Television shorts

Year	Film	Director	Credit
1971	Red, Red, Freckled	Leonid Nosyrev	Producer

;Television specials

Year	Film	Director
1968	Here's Peggy Fleming	Robert Scheerer
2011	Wendy Liebman: Taller on TV	Wendy Liebman