Actor

Ben Burtt

Sound

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Acting credits

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

1.6

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Movies: 88Series: 3Crew credits: 59

TMDB ID: 670

IMDb ID: nm0123785

Known for: Sound

Born: July 12, 1948

Age: 77

Place of birth: Jamesville, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1975 - 2022

Years active: 48

Average TMDB rating: 6.56

Wikidata: Q816456

Also known as

Benjamin Burtt Jr.

Other jobs

Sound Designer (28)Editor (8)Director (7)Second Unit Director (3)Sound Effects (2)Sound Re-Recording Mixer (2)Story (2)Associate Producer (1)

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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.