Bob Sarles

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Bob Sarles is a Primetime Emmy nominated film + television editor and documentary filmmaker. He co-edited the Peabody Award winning documentary series Moon Shot, the ABC documentary 'The Story of Fathers & Sons, three of the first four seasons of the MTV's ground breaking reality series The Real World, and unscripted television series produced for NBC, ABC, Bravo, VH1, Discovery, FX, WE and Oxygen. Bob Sarles co-directed and edited the documentary Bang! The Bert Berns Story, narrated by Steven Van Zandt which premiered at SXSW. He directed and edited the documentary Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield, as well as films displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the EMP Museum in Seattle, and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis. Sarles was a producer and editor on VH1's Behind The Music, a consulting producer on PBS's Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, and an editor on the TVOne music documentary series Unsung. He directed and edited the DVDs Fly Jefferson Airplane, John Lee Hooker: Come And See About Me and Phil Lesh & Friends Live At The Warfield. He produced and edited the triple platinum selling nine DVD box set Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live! for Time Life. Bob Sarles has edited award winning music videos for top rock, rap and country artists, including ZZ Top' Legs and Green Day's Longview. He has cut television spots for Nike, Reebok and Miller Beer for directors including James Cameron and Barry Sonnenfeld. Sarles edited the cult horror film The Video Dead and the feature documentary The True Adventures Of The Real Beverly Hillbillies. He co-produced and edited the feature documentary Wrestling With Satan and was producer and cinematographer on the feature documentary Son Of A Bitch. As an assistant and apprentice editor Sarles worked on major feature films including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Henry & June' and the Oscar winning The Right Stuff.

  • Primary profession
  • Editor·producer·editorial_department
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 12 February 1957
  • Place of birth
  • Buffalo· New York
  • Education
  • Boston University College of Communication

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