Kent Beyda

Kent Beyda is an American film editor who has worked on a wide range of films. Starting out as an assistant editor on John Cassavetes' Opening Night, Allan Arkush's Rock 'n' Roll High School, and Joe Dante's The Howling, he moved into editing on the Julie Corman produced Saturday the 14th. On that film Beyda met his wife Nancy who was at that time working as Corman's assistant. He went on to do a series of music videos for Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello, Dokken, Bette Midler and Mick Jagger, Aldo Nova, Barbra Streisand, and Arkush's followup to Rock n Roll High School called Get Crazy. He then edited the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.

Beyda's first film for a major studio was Fright Night, a horror comedy for Columbia Pictures. Next he edited Out of Bounds, directed by Richard Tuggle for Columbia. Beyda went on to edit Innerspace produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante, X: The Unheard Music a documentary about the Los Angeles punk group X, Alien Nation, Fear starring Ally Sheedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Spielberg and Dante), True Identity, Mr. Saturday Night Billy Crystal's directorial debut, The Flintstones (Spielberg and Brian Levant), Forget Paris (also directed by Crystal), Jingle All The Way (with Arnold Schwarzenegger), The Out-of-Towners with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Big Momma's House, Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, S. Darko, Jonah Hex,Yogi Bear and "Parental Guidance".

As a consultant, Beyda has participated in the films George of the Jungle, Dude, Where's My Car?, Robots, Idiocracy, Fantastic Four, Horton Hears a Who!, and Despicable Me. He has worked on location in New York, Paris, San Francisco, Atlanta, Vancouver, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a member of American Cinema Editors and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In September 2009, Beyda took part in "Editing for Animation", the second part of the Academy's Perspectives in Editing series. The event featured a panel of five current leading animation editors, Beyda, John Carnochan, Kevin Nolting, Nancy Frazen, and Lois Freeman-Fox.

External links

• Kent Beyda at the Internet Movie Database