George Joseph Folsey Jr. (born January 17, 1939) is an American film producer, editor, assistant director and cinematographer who frequently worked with director John Landis in the 1980s. Folsey was acquitted in a manslaughter case brought over the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter accident on the set of . Folsey is the son of George J. Folsey and father of editor Ryan Folsey.[1]
Folsey Jr. edited or co-edited six Landis films: all productions from Schlock (1973) to The Blues Brothers (1980), Thriller and Coming to America. Folsey produced eleven films directed or co-directed by Landis (Schlock, The Blues Brothers, all films from An American Werewolf in London to Coming to America). He was also second unit director on Landis' Trading Places, Into the Night and Three Amigos projects. His son, editor Ryan Folsey appeared in Landis's first feature film Schlock. Folsey's name is mentioned in a scene in Trading Places when Louis Winthorpe gives his coat to the coat attendant and says "Good morning Folsey."
| Year | Film | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Glass Houses | Alexander Singer | ||
| Bone | Larry Cohen | First collaboration with Larry Cohen | ||
| Hammer | Bruce D. Clark | |||
| 1973 | Black Caesar | Larry Cohen | Second collaboration with Larry Cohen | |
| Schlock | John Landis | First collaboration with John Landis | ||
| Trader Horn | Reza Badiyi | |||
| 1975 | Bucktown | Arthur Marks | First collaboration with Arthur Marks | |
| 1976 | Tracks | Henry Jaglom | ||
| J. D.'s Revenge | Arthur Marks | Second collaboration with Arthur Marks | ||
| Norman... Is That You? | George Schlatter | |||
| 1977 | The Kentucky Fried Movie | John Landis | Second collaboration with John Landis | |
| The Chicken Chronicles | Frank Simon | |||
| 1978 | Animal House | John Landis | Third collaboration with John Landis | |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers | Fourth collaboration with John Landis | ||
| 1981 | Sourdough | Martin J. Spinelli | ||
| 1988 | Coming to America | John Landis | Twelfth collaboration with John Landis | |
| 1996 | Bulletproof | Ernest Dickerson | ||
| Michael Ray Rhodes | ||||
| 1998 | Dirty Work | Bob Saget | ||
| 1999 | Goosed | Aleta Chappelle | ||
| 2003 | Basic | John McTiernan | ||
| Cheaper by the Dozen | Shawn Levy | First collaboration with Shawn Levy | ||
| 2004 | The Kings of Brooklyn | Lance Lane | ||
| 2005 | Hostel | Eli Roth | Second collaboration with Eli Roth | |
| The Ringer | Barry W. Blaustein | |||
| 2006 | The Pink Panther | Shawn Levy | Second collaboration with Shawn Levy | |
| Unaccompanied Minors | Paul Feig | |||
| Pledge This! | ||||
| 2007 | Eli Roth | Third collaboration with Eli Roth | ||
| The Gray Man | Scott Flynn | |||
| 2008 | Sex Drive | Sean Anders | ||
| 2010 | Hot Tub Time Machine | Steve Pink | ||
| 2012 | Freeloaders | Dan Rosen | ||
| 2014 | My Sister | David Lascher | ||
| Dead Within | Ben Wagner | |||
| 2015 | Chain of Command | Kevin Carraway | ||
| Clarity | Peyv Raz | |||
| The Wicked Within | Jay Alaimo | |||
| 2021 | Death Link | David Lipper | First collaboration with David Lipper | |
| Just Swipe | Elizabeth Blake-Thomas | |||
| 2022 | Wolf Mountain | David Lipper | Second collaboration with David Lipper | |
| 2024 | Summer Rain | Josiah David Warren |
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Portrait of a Hitman | Allan A. Buckhantz | Supervising editor | ||
| The Great Santini | Lewis John Carlino | Consulting editor | |||
| 2001 | Super Troopers | Jay Chandrasekhar | Additional editor | First collaboration with Jay Chandrasekhar | |
| 2007 | Love and Mary | Elizabeth Harrison | Supervising editor | ||
| 2008 | Igor | Tony Leondis | Additional editor |
| Year | Film | Director | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Glass Houses | Alexander Singer | Producer | |
| 1973 | Schlock | John Landis | Executive producer | |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers | Associate producer | ||
| 1981 | An American Werewolf in London | Producer | Fifth collaboration with John Landis | |
| 1983 | Trading Places | Executive producer | Sixth collaboration with John Landis | |
| Associate producer | Prologue / "Time Out" segment Seventh collaboration with John Landis | |||
| 1985 | Into the Night | Producer | Eighth collaboration with John Landis | |
| Spies Like Us | Ninth collaboration with John Landis | |||
| Clue | Jonathan Lynn | Executive producer | First collaboration with Jonathan Lynn | |
| 1986 | Three Amigos | John Landis | Producer | Tenth collaboration with John Landis |
| 1987 | Amazon Women on the Moon | Executive producer | Eleventh collaboration with John Landis | |
| 1988 | Coming to America | John Landis | Producer | |
| 1993 | The Thing Called Love | Peter Bogdanovich | Executive producer | |
| 1994 | Greedy | Jonathan Lynn | Second collaboration with Jonathan Lynn | |
| 1995 | Grumpier Old Men | Howard Deutch | Co-producer | |
| 2014 | Dead Within | Ben Wagner | Producer | |
| 2020 | Reboot Camp | Ivo Raza | Executive producer | |
| 2021 | Death Link | David Lipper |
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Trading Places | John Landis | Second unit director |
| 1985 | Into the Night | ||
| 1986 | Three Amigos |
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Cabin Fever | Eli Roth | Very special thanks | First collaboration with Eli Roth | |
| 2004 | Club Dread | Jay Chandrasekhar | Thanks | Second collaboration with Jay Chandrasekhar | |
| 2008 | The Rainbow Tribe | Christopher R. Watson | Very special thanks | ||
| 2011 | Cellmates | Jesse Baget | Special thanks |
| Year | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Pledge This! | ||
| 2011 | Scott Spiegel |
| Year | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Thanksgiving | Eli Roth | |
| Latchkey's Lament | Troy Nixey | ||
| 2008 | Hole in the Paper Sky | Bill Purple | |
| 2010 | Despair | Alex Prager | |
| 2016 | One World | Julien Seri |
| Year | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | It Happened at Lakewood Manor | Robert Scheerer | |
| 1979 | Freedom Road | Ján Kadár |
| Year | Title | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The Monkees | 1 episode | |
| 1973−74 | Shaft | 4 episodes | |
| 1979 | Freedom Road | 2 episodes |
| Year | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Here's Peggy Fleming | Robert Scheerer | |
| 2011 | Wendy Liebman: Taller on TV | Wendy Liebman |