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Ben Burtt

Ben Burtt

Sound · b. 1948 · Jamesville, New York, USA

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.

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    WALL·E

    2008 · 20K votes

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    Return of the Jedi

    1983 · 17K votes

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    BURN·E

    2008 · 831 votes

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    And the Oscar Goes To...

    2014 · 60 votes

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    R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

    2001 · 23 votes

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    The Force of Sound

    2018 · 4 votes

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    Fog City Mavericks

    2007 · 2 votes

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    I Am Your Father

    2015 · 58 votes

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    LIGHT & MAGIC

    2022 · 62 votes