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Ben Burtt

Sound

Ben Burtt

Born
1948-07-12 · Jamesville, New York, USA
Filmography
96 titles on TMDB
About Ben Burtt

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.

Backdrop from WALL·E

Films & television

93 titles

WALL·E / M-O (voice) · Supervising Sound Editor · Sound Re-Recording Mixer · Sound Designer

Sound Designer

Sound Designer

Naboo Courier (uncredited) · Editor · Supervising Sound Editor · Sound Designer

'Freeze' Officer in Endor Bunker / Tortured Power Droid (voice) · Sound Designer · Lyricist

Special Sound Effects

Editor · Supervising Sound Editor · Sound Designer

Sound Designer

Sound Designer

Wat Tambor (uncredited) · Editor · Sound Designer · Supervising Sound Editor

Sound Designer · Supervising Sound Editor

Sound Designer · Supervising Sound Editor

Sound Designer

Sound Designer

Sound Re-Recording Mixer · Sound Effects Editor

Sound Designer

Sound Designer · Editor

Sound Designer

Supervising Sound Editor

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