- Born
- Died
- Birth nameLouis Joseph Lombardo
- Nickname
- Louie
- Height1.63 m
- Lou Lombardo was born on February 15, 1932 in Missouri, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for La Horde sauvage (1969), Éclair de lune (1987) and Le Privé (1973). He died on May 8, 2002 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Landed the enviable role of cutter on Sam Peckinpah's La Horde sauvage (1969) after Sam had seen his groundbreaking technique in My Mommy Got Lost (1967), an episode of Brigade criminelle (1966) directed by George McCowan. Lombardo had taken footage of villain Joe Don Baker being gunned down by police, printed each frame of Baker's fall to the ground three times on an optical printer, and intercut this footage with shots of cops shooting and running for cover in real time. Peckinpah was so spellbound by this sequence,he hired Lombardo right away.
- Began as Robert Altman's cameraman working on training films for the Calvin Co. He then joined Republic as a cameraman in 1956. He subsequently served an eight-year apprenticeship as an editor at Revue Studios. He eventually went on to edit five films for Altman, including John McCabe (1971).
- Father of editor Tony Lombardo
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