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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.
27
Films
7.7
Avg Score
Filmography (27)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
77
Sound Designer
The Signal
60
Sound Designer
Star Trek Into Darkness
77
Sound Designer
Escape from Planet Earth
58
Sound Designer
John Carter
66
Sound Designer
Lincoln
73
Sound Designer
Red Tails
59
Sound Designer
Editor
Super 8
70
Sound Designer
Supervising Sound Editor
Star Trek
79
Special Sound Effects
WALL·E
84
as WALL·E / M-O (voice)
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Supervising Sound Editor
Sound Designer
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
62
Sound Designer
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
76
Editor
Supervising Sound Editor
Sound Designer
Munich
75
Sound Designer
Supervising Sound Editor
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
66
Editor
Sound Designer
Supervising Sound Editor
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
65
as Naboo Courier (uncredited)
Editor
Supervising Sound Editor
Sound Designer
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
82
Sound Designer
Always
64
Sound Designer
Willow
72
Sound Designer
Howard the Duck
48
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Effects Editor
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
75
Sound Designer
Return of the Jedi
83
as 'Freeze' Officer in Endor Bunker / Tortured Power Droid (voice)
Sound Designer
Raiders of the Lost Ark
84
Sound Designer
The Empire Strikes Back
87
Sound Designer
Alien
85
Sound Designer
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
74
Sound Effects Designer
Star Wars
86
Sound Designer
Death Race 2000
62
Sound Designer