Rick Tuber, a TV and film editor who won an Emmy and an ACE award for his work on NBC’s classic medical drama ER, died from a heart attack at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on January 7. He was 69.
According to the report by Deadlone, his death was confirmed by a family spokesperson.
Tuber’s many editing credits stretch back to the mid-1980s and 1990s, with work on such series as Cagney & Lacey Wiseguy, Nash Bridges and Martial Law, among others. Subsequent credits include Awake, 23 episodes of The Unit, Salem (13 episodes), Chicago Fire and, his final credit in 2017, Bones.
Rick Tuber and fellow editor Randy Jon Morgan won the Emmy Award for their editing of ER during the show’s first season (1994-1995)
During his prolific career, Rick Tuber worked for such showrunners and directors as Aaron Spelling, Stephen J. Cannell, Shawn Ryan, Steven Spielberg, Tyler Perry, Mimi Leder, Steven Bochco, David Mamet, John Wells and many others. His early feature film credits as assistant editor include Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988), The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993).
In addition to his editing work, Tuber authored the book Shanghai Cuts: A Hollywood Film Editor’s Misadventures in China, which told of his experiences working on a Dennis Hopper series in China, several noir-style novels including the upcoming Love, Death, and Whisky: The Last Wee Dram.
He is survived by wife Shirley, sons Neil, Peter, Sean and Sam; grandchildren Tyler, Jackson and Mia; and brother, Doug, a television writer. He was preceded by his father, Richard Tuber, an Emmy-winning TV writer, and his twin brother, entertainment journalist Keith Tuber.