Ben Burtt
Sound
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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Ben Burtt
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Filmography of
Ben Burtt
... 2021
... 2019
Self
... 2018
Himself
... 2015
Self - Interviewee
... 2014
... 2014
... 2013
... 2013
... 2012
... 2012
WALL·E / M-O (voice)
... 2008
WALL·E / M-O (voice) (uncredited)
... 2008
WALL·E / M-O (voice)
... 2008
Self
... 2007
... 2007
... 2006
... 2006
... 2005
... 2005
... 2005
Self - Sound Designer
... 2004
... 2004
... 2003
... 2002
... 2002
Wat Tambor (uncredited)
... 2002
... 2001
Naboo Courier (uncredited)
... 1999
... 1997
... 1996
... 1983
'Freeze' Officer in Endor Bunker / Tortured Power Droid (voice)
... 1983
... 1980
... 1980