Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary. Wikipedia
One person who noticed the same distinctive scream reoccurring in so many movies was sound effects fan Ben Burtt. www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/
Burtt created the voices and sounds for the aliens and droids of Star Wars (1977) and the voice of E.T. To come up with Chewbacca's voice, he went to a zoo, but that day did not find what he wanted. Later, at an animal farm, a bear's growls provided the b www.imdb.com/name/nm0123785/
It was Ben Burtt 's sound design work -- creating the voice of R2-D2 , the hum and crash of lightsaber s in battle, and the zooming rush of the speeder bike chase -- that gave the original Star Wars its convincing feel of audio reality. Twenty years late www.starwars.com/bio/benburtt.html
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F our-time Academy Award-winner Ben Burtt broke into the movie business at age 10, when he started making "little dramas" with the family's home-movie camera. Burtt has gone pretty far since "The Window Washer" -- his first short made 38 years ago -- in www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/burtt/index.html