The son of film theoretician Raymond Spottiswoode, British-born Roger Spottiswoode served as an editing trainee on "Georgy Girl" (1996), then worked as an editor of documentaries and TV commercials prior to cutting three Sam Peckinpah films, "Straw Dogs" (1971), The Getaway" (1972) and "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973). He also edited Karel Reisz's "The Gambler" (1974) and Walter Hill's "Hard Times" (1975) and would reteam with each again, associate producing Reisz's "Who'll Stop the Rain" (1977) and co-scripting (with Hill and Larry Gross) Hill's blockbuster Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte hit
