Hubert de la Bouillerie

Hubert de la Bouillerie died on 8 August 2026 in Los Angeles. He was 75. His death was announced by his friend, the composer Robert Folk, and reported by The Hollywood Reporter on 26 October 2026. No cause of death was made public, and no public funeral or memorial details had been reported. He was survived by his children, Jacqueline and Alexandre, and his siblings, Annie, Caroline, Juliette, Diane, Helie and Alban.

Hubert Charles de la Bouillerie was born on 28 January 1951, the eldest child of Baron Henri de la Bouillerie and Elinor Marcus. His paternal family had longstanding ties to the Loire Valley and to the Chateau de Villandry, one of the great Renaissance chateaux of the region. He attended the Ecole des Roches, a renowned French boarding school, before moving into film work in the United States. He grew up as the eldest of a large family, with siblings Annie, Caroline, Juliette, Diane, Helie and Alban.

De la Bouillerie's first notable credit came on Woodstock (1970), Michael Wadleigh's Academy Award winning documentary of the 1969 festival, on which he received an additional editing credit; Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker were among its credited editors. He then worked as an assistant editor on Norman Jewison's Rollerball (1975).

As a full editor in the 1980s he worked on Of Unknown Origin (1983), Krush Groove (1985), Doin' Time (1985) and Honeymoon Academy (1989), a film scored by his friend Robert Folk. At Warner Bros. he edited George Miller's The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988), Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989) and Tango and Cash (1989), on which he was hired to help rescue the production in the editing room. He also edited the 1990 short 12:01 PM, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.

In the 1990s his credits included Other People's Money (1991) for Jewison, Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Mo' Money (1992), The Harvest (1993), the HBO film State of Emergency (1994), Blank Check (1994) and Celtic Pride (1996). Over his career he was film editor on more than thirty features. Folk said that Warner Bros. chiefs Bob Daly and Terry Semel relied on him to review the final cut of the vast majority of the studio's features in the 1980s and 1990s.

He also worked as a director, making the 1996 Showtime telefilm The Right to Remain Silent, starring Lea Thompson and Amanda Plummer, the science fiction film The Apocalypse (1997) and the 2005 Boston Legal episode Let Sales Ring. In 2012 he published a gothic novel, Of Love and Evil: The Birth.

De la Bouillerie was married twice. His first wife was Hilary Saltzman, daughter of the James Bond film producer Harry Saltzman. He was later married to Debbie Robins de la Bouillerie, a Hollywood Pictures executive and producer; they were together from 1991 until her death in 2015 at the age of 58. He had two children, Jacqueline and Alexandre. Outside the cutting room he was an accomplished photographer and a novelist.

Most of de la Bouillerie's work happened out of sight, in the editing rooms where films are shaped and sometimes saved. His credits stretch from one of the most celebrated documentaries of the counterculture era to the glossy studio comedies and action films of the 1980s and 1990s, and his role as the editor Warner Bros. leadership trusted to judge final cuts shows the regard in which colleagues held him.