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John LaSalandra, SME (18 March 1940 – 21 April 2022; age 82) was a music editor who worked on several episodes of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
LaSalandra won an Emmy Award in 1985 for Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Limited Series or a Special on Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985). He shared this award with Trek sound mixer Jeff Clark. Among the films on which LaSalandra worked as music editor are The Doberman Gang (1973), Shōgun (1980), The Last Fling (1987), Above the Law (1988), Hero and the Terror (1988), Going Under (1990, with Armin Steiner), China Cry (1990), Suburban Commando (1991), the television drama Boy Meets Girl (1993), The Dark Half (1993, with Jeff Atmajian and E. Gedney Webb), Dream Lover (1993, with Rick Winquest), The Disappearance of Christina (1993, with E. Gedney Webb), the television drama Children of the Dark (1994), Billy Madison (1995), While You Were Sleeping (1995, with Sandy DeCrescent), Diabolique (1996), The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), EDtv (1999), Three to Tango (1999), and Shanghai Noon (2000).
Prior to his career in the music department, LaSalandra worked as construction coordinator on a number of films including Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), Emperor of the North Pole (1973), Hustle (1975), and Apocalypse Now (1979).