Ralph Rosenblum; Film Editor and Director

Ralph Rosenblum, 69, a film editor and director who edited six of Woody Allen’s movies including “Annie Hall.” A native New Yorker, Rosenblum got his training as an apprentice making documentaries for the Office of War Information during World War II. He won the British Film Academy Award for his editing of the 1977 “Annie Hall,” a film in which he later said the trick “was to find the plot amid all the brilliant skits.” Among other films Rosenblum edited were “A Thousand Clowns,” “Fail-Safe” and “Goodbye, Columbus.” He also worked in television, notably directing Henry Fonda’s last film, “Summer Solstice,” for ABC in 1981. In 1979, Rosenblum co-authored a memoir about film editing, “When the Shooting Stops . . . The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor’s Story.” For the past several years, Rosenblum had taught at the graduate film school at Columbia University. On Monday in New York of heart failure.