Ben Burttborn 1948 (77)
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Sound
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Biography
Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. is a sound designer, film editor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor. He has worked as sound designer on various films, including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, WALL-E, and Star Trek. He is responsible for creating many of the iconic sound effects heard in the Star Wars film franchise, including the binary speech of R2-D2, the lightsaber hum, the sound of the blaster guns, and the heavy-breathing sound of Darth Vader, which he made by breathing into a scuba regulator. Burtt has a reputation for popularizing a sound effect dubbed the "Wilhelm scream", which was taken from a character named Wilhelm in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River.
Credits
2008
Animation • Family • Science Fiction
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Designer
2005
Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
Editor, Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
2004
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Science Fiction
Story
2002
Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
Editor, Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor
2000
Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie
Sound Designer
1999
Action • Adventure • TV Movie • War
Editor
1999
Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie • War
Editor, Second Unit Director
1999
Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie
Sound Designer
1999
Action • Adventure • Horror • TV Movie
Sound Designer
1999
Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie • War
Second Unit Director, Editor
1999
Action • Adventure • Drama • Family • TV Movie • Western
Second Unit Director
1999
Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie • War
Editor
1999
Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
Editor, Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
1996
Action • Adventure • Drama • Family • TV Movie
Sound Designer
1995
Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie
Writer, Director, Editor
1993
Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie • War
Second Unit Director
1993
Action • Adventure • Drama • TV Movie
Second Unit Director
1986
Action • Adventure • Comedy • Fantasy • Romance • Science Fiction
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Effects Editor
1986
Animation • Family • Science Fiction • TV Movie
Writer, Associate Producer
1978
Adventure • Family • Music • Science Fiction • TV Movie
Sound Effects
