Ben Burtt
Personal Info
Know For
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-07-12 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Jamesville, New York, USA
Also known As
Benjamin Burtt Jr.
Ben Burtt
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...
Acting
2008
as WALL·E / M-O (voice)
2008
as WALL·E / M-O (voice)
1996
1997
2008
as WALL·E / M-O (voice) (uncredited)
2021
1983
2002
2005
2006
2005
2004
as Self - Sound Designer
2013
2014
as Self - Interviewee
2012
as Self
2004
2015
as Himself
2018
as Self
2003
as Self
1980
2014
as Self
2019
1999
as Naboo Courier (uncredited)
1983
as 'Freeze' Officer in Endor Bunker / Tortured Power Droid (voice)
2013
as Self
2001
as Self
1980
2007
as Self
Production
1981
as Sound Designer
1989
as Sound Designer
1984
as Sound Designer
2005
as Sound Designer
2005
1999
2002
2005
as Supervising Sound Editor
1990
as Director
1994
as Director
1984
as Sound Designer
2002
as Director
1991
as Director
1999
as Supervising Sound Editor
1995
1995
2012
as Sound Designer
1996
as Director
2012
as Sound Designer
2015
as Sound Designer
2012
as Sound Designer
2013
as Sound Designer
1988
as Sound Designer
2013
as Sound Designer
2000
as Sound Designer
2012
as Editor
2011
as Sound Designer
2008
as Sound Re-Recording Mixer
1999
as Sound Designer
2008
as Sound Designer
2002
as Sound Designer
1979
as Sound Designer
1980
as Sound Designer
2008
as Supervising Sound Editor
1975
as Sound Designer
1983
as Sound Designer
2012
as Sound Designer
2014
as Sound Designer
1977
as Sound Designer
1989
as Sound Designer
2005
as Sound Designer
2005
as Supervising Sound Editor
2009
as Special Sound Effects
2011
as Supervising Sound Editor
1978
as Sound Effects
2008
as Sound Designer
1980
as Military Consultant
1986
as Associate Producer
1986
as Writer
1999
as Sound Designer
1995
1999
as Second Unit Director
1992
as Director
1999
as Second Unit Director
1999
as Second Unit Director
1999
as Second Unit Director
1999
as Second Unit Director
2002
as Supervising Sound Editor
1986
as Sound Effects Editor
1986
as Sound Re-Recording Mixer
1975
as Sound Re-Recording Mixer
1996
1978
as Sound Effects Designer
1979
as Supervising Sound Editor
2008
as Sound Designer
1999
as Sound Designer
1996
as Sound Designer
1982
as Sound Effects
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