Aaron Stell


Aaron Stell was an American film editor with one hundred feature film credits and many additional credits for his television work. Stell worked for more than a decade at the start of his career at Columbia Pictures, which was a major Hollywood studio in that era. Among his most noted films are Touch of Evil, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Silent Running.
Touch of Evil, which was directed by Orson Welles, proved difficult for Stell; he was not the initial editor but instead chosen for re-editing, and he noted that Welles became "ill, depressed, and unhappy with the studio's impatience" in the process.
Stell had been selected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. He was nominated for the American Cinema Editors Eddie award for To Kill a Mockingbird. He was also nominated for Eddies for his television work on an episode of Ben Casey and on the mini-series . In 1996 he shared the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award with Desmond Marquette.

Selected filmography