Lambert, Robert K. (Robert Lambert)

PERSONAL

Avocational interests: Auto racing, building race cars. Avocational Interests: Auto racing, building race cars.

Addresses:

Agent—United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Film editor and producer. Began career as assistant film editor for a commercial and animation company; David L. Wolper Productions, editor, beginning in 1986; also worked as second unit director, production executive, post-production supervisor, and editorial supervisor.

Member:

American Cinema Editors.

Awards, Honors:

Emmy Award nomination, outstanding achievement in film editing for entertainment programming for a special, 1976, for I Will Fight No More Forever; Emmy Award nomination (with Peter C. Johnson), outstanding individual achievement, and Eddie Award (with Johnson), best edited documentary, American Cinema Editors, both 1977, for Life Goes to the Movies; Eddie Award nomination (with others), best edited documentary, 1979, for The Secret Life of Plants; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding editing for a single-camera production of a miniseries or special, 1989, for The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro; Eddie Award nomination (with others), best edited episode from a television miniseries, 1989, for Shadow on the Sun; Eddie Award nomination, best edited episode from a television miniseries, 1991, for Women and Men: Stories of Seduction; Online Film Critics Society Award nomination, best film editing, 2000, for Three Kings.

CREDITS

Film Editor:

Wattstax (documentary), Columbia, 1973.

Visions of Eight, 1973.

(And associate producer) Up from the Ape (also known as The Animal Within), 1974.

(With Peter C. Johnson) Life Goes to the Movies (documentary), 1976.

The Mysterious Monsters (also known as Bigfoot the Mysterious Monster), Schick Sunn Classic, 1976.

(And music editor) Sorcerer (also known as Wages of Fear), Paramount/Universal, 1977.

The Driver, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978.

The Secret Life of Plants (documentary), Paramount, 1978.

The Brink's Job (also known as Big Stickup at Brink's), Universal, 1978.

(With others) The Final Countdown (documentary; also known as U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific), United Artists, 1980.

The Border, Universal, 1982.

The Hotel New Hampshire, Orion, 1984.

Heavenly Bodies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1984.

(And associate producer) Bring On the Night (documentary; also known as Sting: Bring On the Night), Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1985.

Critical Condition, Paramount, 1987.

Final Cut, Forward Pictures, 1988.

(As Robert Lambert) Additional editing, Above the Law (also known as Nico and Nico: Above the Law), Warner Bros., 1988.

Additional editing, Last Action Hero, Sony Pictures Releasing, 1993.

Blue Sky, Orion, 1994.

Blue Chips, Paramount, 1994.

Ed, Universal, 1996.

Picture of Priority (also known as Angel on Fire), 1998.

Without Limits, Warner Bros., 1998.

Three Kings, Warner Bros., 1999.

Red Planet, Warner Bros., 2000.

Rush Hour 2, 2001.

Rollerball, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2002.

(And associate producer) House of 1000 Corpses, Lions Gate Films, 2003.

(And associate producer) Bulletproof Monk, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2003.

Suspect Zero (also known as Suspect 0), Paramount, 2004.

I Heart Huckabees (also known as I Love Huckabees), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2004.

Ask the Dust, Paramount, 2006.

Pulse, Dimension Films, 2006.

The Nativity Story, New Line Cinema, 2006.

Film Work; Other:

Producer, Casa Hollywood, Casa Hollywood, 1996.

Film Appearances:

(As Robert Lambert) Daryl, I Heart Huckabees (also known as I Love Huckabees), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2004.

Television Film Editor; Miniseries:

(With others) Shadow on the Sun (also known as Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun), CBS, 1988.

The Phantom of the Opera, NBC, 1990.

Television Film Editor; Movies:

(And associate producer) Cowboy, 1983.

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro, 1989.

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction, 1990.

(And associate producer) In the Arms of a Killer, NBC, 1992.

The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue (also known as L'ange de Noel), 1996.

Television Film Editor; Other:

Making of the President 1968, 1969.

(And associate producer) Plimpton! (occasional series of documentary specials), 1970, 1971, 1972.

I Will Fight No More Forever (special), 1975.

Area 57 (pilot), NBC, 2007.