Bruce Green

{{short description|American film editor}}

{{for|the American television director|Bruce Seth Green}}

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Bruce Green is an American film editor known for his work with directors such as Garry Marshall, Mark Waters, and Jon Turteltaub.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337669/|title=Bruce Green|website=IMDb |publisher=}} Trained by editor Michael Kahn, he was the first assistant editor on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).{{cite web|url=http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/Newsletter/JulAug99/chat_green.html|title=Bruce Greene, ACE "Fireside Chat" #10 in the Series|access-date=2014-11-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219035810/http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/Newsletter/JulAug99/chat_green.html|archive-date=2014-12-19|url-status=dead}} He was in the visual effects department of Star Wars (1977).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2uctr9bU7wC|title=Skywalking: The Life And Films of George Lucas, Updated Edition|first=Dale|last=Pollock|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=9780786749768 |via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/0106/columns_unionmade.htm|title=Editors Guild Magazine - Columns - Union Made|last=Form+Spark|access-date=2014-11-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829234531/http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/0106/columns_unionmade.htm#|archive-date=2014-08-29|url-status=dead}}

Green began his career editing Friday the 13th films, including Friday the 13th: A New Beginning and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. Later, he edited films such as Cool Runnings, The Princess Diaries and Freaky Friday. He has also worked in television, editing Jane the Virgin.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3566726/combined|title=Jane the Virgin|date=13 October 2014|publisher=|via=IMDb}}

Bruce was on the board of directors of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Hollywood.{{cite web|url=http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/0105/dept_shortends.htm|title=Editors Guild Magazine - Short Ends|last=Form+Spark|access-date=2014-11-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002246/http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/0105/dept_shortends.htm|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}