Film Editor, Director. He was best known for editing major motion pictures for directors Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, and Mel Brooks. At 16, he went to work in a garment factory after his father suffered a stroke. In 1943, he started as a clerk-messenger at the Office of War Information. The next year he was promoted to the cutting room as an assistant. He was soon assisting the chief editor, Sidney Myers, who became his mentor and surrogate father. In 1947 through 1948, he was the assistant editor under Helen van Dongen, on Robert Flaherty’s film,”Louisiana Story”(1948). Between 1948 and 1950, he cut TV commercials for Max Rothstein's editing service, and worked at the United Nations film section. In 1951, he was cutting commercials at Transfilm, the largest production company in New York. Between 1952 and 1954, he was editing the CBS programs,”Omnibus” and “The Search”. In 1956, he co-founded MKR Films with Gene Milford and Sid Katz. For the next five years, they cut commercials for Buick, Texaco, Philip Morris and Robutussin; in addition to documentaries and TV pilots. For two seasons, he edited “The Guy Lombardo Show.” Ralph Rosenblum had a self-taught, encyclopedic knowledge of classical and jazz music. He suggested Quincy Jones for the soundtrack to Sidney Lumet’s “The Pawnbroker”(1965), and Prokofiev for the score of Woody Allen’s “Love and Death”(1975). He made the transition to larger, feature films, editing “Murder Inc.”(1960). In 1963 and 1964, he was the supervising editor for “The Patty Duke Show.” Between 1962 and 1966, he edited Sidney Lumet’s “A Long Day’s Journey Into Night”(1962), “Fail-Safe”(1964), “The Pawnbroker”(1965), and “The Group”(1966). In 1966, he was nominated for an American Cinema Editors award for the feature film,”A Thousand Clowns”(1965). In the late 1960’s, he edited “The Producers”(1968), “The Night They Raided Minsky’s”(1968), “Goodbye, Columbus”(1969), and was editorial consultant on Woody Allen’s “Take the Money and Run”(1969). In the 1970’s, he edited Woody Allen's “Bananas”(1971), “Sleeper”(1973), “Love and Death”(1975), “Annie Hall”(1977), and “Interiors”(1978). In the early 70's, he took 35MM photographs of New York neighborhoods, windows, and childrens' paintings on construction fences. These were shown in two exhibits in the rotunda of the Museum of the City of New York. In 1977, he won the BAFTA award for Best Editing on “Annie Hall” with Wendy Greene Bricmont. In 1979, he published a book with Robert Karen entitled,”When the Shooting Stops...the Cutting Begins: A Film Editor’s Story”. Among his Directing credits were the documentary, "Turner"(1972) “Acting Out”(1978), James Thurber’s “The Greatest Man in the World”(1980 TV movie), Mark Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"(1980 TV movie), Ray Bradbury’s “Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby is a Friend of Mine”(1981 American Playhouse), and “Summer Solstice”(1981 TV movie) with Henry Fonda. In later years, he taught film editing at Columbia University, and the International Film and TV Workshops-now, Maine Media Workshops and College at Rockport, Maine. On September 6, 1995, Ralph Rosenblum died of heart failure at his Manhattan home. He was 69 years old. His body was cremated and the ashes were buried under a tree marked by a plaque, at Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, Maine.