Ben Burtt was the sound editor for WALL-E and performed the vocalizations of the titular character as well as other robots in the film.
19 Facts About Ben Burtt
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Ben Burtt has won four Academy Awards, two of which are Special Achievement Academy Awards.
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Ben Burtt has directed numerous documentary films and was the editor of the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
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Ben Burtt was born in Jamesville, New York, on July 12,1948.
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The son of a chemistry professor and a child psychologist, Ben Burtt made films as a child, and later studied physics at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1970.
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Ben Burtt made films during his time in college, and in 1970 won a National Student Film Festival for his war film entitled Yankee Squadron, reputedly after following exposure to classic aviation drama.
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Ben Burtt had previously made an amateur film at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, a living aviation museum in Red Hook, New York, under guidance from its founder, Cole Palen.
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Ben Burtt pioneered many aspects of modern sound design, especially in the science-fiction and fantasy-film genres.
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Ben Burtt sought a more natural sound, blending in "found sounds" to create the effects.
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Ben Burtt created the "voice" of the title character and many other robots in Pixar's film WALL-E, about a lonely garbage-compacting robot.
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Additionally, Ben Burtt is responsible for the sound effects in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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Ben Burtt has a reputation for including a sound effect dubbed "the Wilhelm scream" in many of the movies he has worked on.
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Ben Burtt was among the golden ears that critically reviewed the various audio compression systems that were proposed for the ATSC 1.0 digital television system.
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Ben Burtt has directed several IMAX documentary films, including Blue Planet, Destiny in Space, and the Oscar-nominated Special Effects: Anything Can Happen.
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Ben Burtt edited the entire Star Wars prequel trilogy, and several episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
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Ben Burtt wrote several episodes of the 1980s Star Wars cartoon Droids.
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Ben Burtt makes a cameo appearance in two of the Star Wars films as an extra.
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The scream as Ben Burtt falls is his own imitation of the Wilhelm scream that he popularized.
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Ben Burtt was awarded the Doctor of Arts, honoris causa, by Allegheny College on May 9,2004.