Hubert de la Bouillerie, a film editor whose credits ran from Woodstock to The Witches of Eastwick and Tango & Cash, died on August 8, 2026, in Los Angeles. He was 75. His friend, the composer Robert Folk, announced the death, which was reported by The Hollywood Reporter in late October.
The editor Warner Bros. trusted
According to Folk, de la Bouillerie was the editor on the Warner Bros. lot whom studio chiefs Bob Daly and Terry Semel relied on most to review the final edit of “the vast majority of features” made in Burbank in the 1980s and 1990s.
At Warners he edited George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988), Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989), the Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell action film Tango & Cash (1989) and Norman Jewison’s Other People’s Money (1991).
Career
He received an additional editing credit on Michael Wadleigh’s documentary Woodstock (1970) and was an assistant editor on Jewison’s Rollerball (1975). His other features included Krush Groove (1985), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Mo’ Money (1992), Blank Check (1994) and Celtic Pride (1996).
He also directed the 1996 Showtime film The Right to Remain Silent, with Lea Thompson and Amanda Plummer, the science-fiction film The Apocalypse (1997) and a 2005 episode of Boston Legal. He wrote a gothic novel, Of Love and Evil: The Birth (2012), and was a keen photographer.
Family
Hubert Charles de la Bouillerie was born on January 28, 1951, the eldest child of Baron Henri de la Bouillerie and Elinor Marcus. His father’s family had long ties to the Loire Valley and the Château de Villandry, and he attended the École des Roches in France.
He was married to Hilary Saltzman, daughter of the James Bond producer Harry Saltzman, and later to the producer Debbie Robins de la Bouillerie, who died in 2015. He is survived by his children, Jacqueline and Alexandre, and his siblings Annie, Caroline, Juliette, Diane, Helie and Alban.