Friday
May132011

Patrick McMahon

Pat was born and raised in Trail, graduating from J. Lloyd Crowe in 1967. Pat was an excellent junior hockey player, but in 1972, decided to pursue a career in motion picture editing in New York. There he apprenticed under Actor/Director Woody Allen. He worked as a freelance film editor in New York until 1995 before moving to Los Angeles to further his career.

In the past 25 years, Pat has completed an impressive list of editing credits in television and film. In 2006, Pat was nominated for an Emmy by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Outstanding Picture Editing in Non-Fiction Programming for the HBO documentary film "Baghdad ER". This film has won worldwide acclaim for both HBO and Pat.

Pat's other major film credits include Stephen King's "The Stand" and "The Shining", "Following Her Heart", and television show's "Roswell" and "Jericho". Pat was also co-Editor of "A Nightmare on Elm Street". He was nominated for an Editing Award for his work on "The Shining" in 1997.

Pat is a member of the American Cinema Editors and continues to be in great demand in the field of Filmography.