Edgar Burcksen, who dealt with visible results for The Hunt for Purple October and Die Laborious 2 and received an Emmy for enhancing the pilot for The Younger Indiana Jones Chronicles, has died. He was 76.
Burcksen died Sunday in Los Angeles of problems from a coronary heart assault, Progressive Artists introduced.
Born in Holland in 1947, Burcksen began his profession enhancing options in Amsterdam. He moved to San Francisco to work for Colossal Photos, the place he collaborated on music movies for the Grateful Lifeless and Thomas Dolby and on commercials for Disney, Levi’s and different corporations.
He joined George Lucas’ ILM, served as the results editor on the 1990 movies The Hunt for Purple October and Die Laborious 2 and have become an skilled in using the nonlinear enhancing system often called the EditDroid, a precursor to the Avid.
Lucas then tasked him with dealing with postproduction on the 1992-93 ABC sequence The Younger Indiana Jones Chronicles, and he acquired his Emmy for his work on “The Curse of the Jackal” pilot.
Burcksen additionally edited the Jeroen Krabbé-directed function Left Baggage (1998) and such documentary tasks because the Kevin Costner 1995 miniseries 500 Nations, the Oscar-nominated Colours Straight Up (1997), Darfur Now (2007) and Hollywood Banker (2014).
Burcksen acquired the Golden Calf on the Nederlands Movie Competition in 1985 and the Robert Sensible Award from the American Cinema Editors in 2011. He additionally was a longtime author and editor-in-chief of ACE’s CinemaEditor journal.
Plus, he taught movie enhancing on the Academy of Artwork College of San Francisco and was fluent in Dutch, English, German and French.
Burcksen, a longtime member of the Westwood-based Velo Membership La Grange, was an ultramarathon bicycle owner who accomplished 25 double centuries — using 200 miles in at some point — over a 10-year interval. He edited The Present, a documentary about his membership that was based in 1968, final yr.
Survivors embrace his spouse of fifty years, Jana, and their kids, Branko and Romaika.
“Edgar was one of the vital beneficiant folks I’ve ever encountered. I labored, cycled and socialized with him for over 30 years,” Invoice Birrell, former senior vp and G.M. of Sony Photos Imageworks, mentioned in an announcement.
“For a pal, no favor was an excessive amount of to ask. For a filmmaker, no revision or further process could be refused. For his biking membership, he’d volunteer for any occasion. And for his household, he would transfer heaven and earth — or home equipment, or construct a kitchen or a roof over a horse barn.
“He appeared to have boundless power. Usually he labored on two tasks on the identical time, racking up 16- to 18-hour days. Nonetheless, he made time to write down and edit CinemaEditor journal, journey his bike, be his personal handyman in addition to devoted household man.”