"Pat" Buba (April 16, 1946 – September 12, 2018)[1] was an American film editor, noted for his longtime collaboration with George A. Romero.
[4] Together with John Harrison and Dusty Nelson he founded the small Pittsburgh-based production company BuDuDa in 1973.
[4] He later met George A. Romero and had two short appearances in his films: as drug dealer in Martin and as biker in Dawn of the Dead.
In 1995, Buba together with William Goldenberg, Dov Hoenig and Tom Rolf edited Michael Mann's film Heat, starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
[6] Buba died in his home in Los Angeles on September 12, 2018, at the age of 72, after a lengthy battle with lung cancer.