Ben Burtt
Profile info
Known forSound
GenderMale
Birthday12 July 1948 (78 years old)
Place of birthJamesville, New York, USA
Known credits96
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…
Ray Gunn
2026 · Sound Designer
Ray Gunn
2026 · Sound
LIGHT & MAGIC
2022 · Self - Sound Designer and Editor
LIGHT & MAGIC
2022 · Self - Editor
Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett
2021 · Self
Star Wars Galaxy of Sounds
2021 · Sound Designer
Jet Jockeys in Love: The Making of CHAIN LIGHTNING ('50)
2021 · Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019 · Self
The Force of Sound
2018 · Self
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015 · Sound Designer
I Am Your Father
2015 · Himself
The Signal
2014 · Sound Designer
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014 · Self - Interviewee
EditDroid: Rise and Fall
2014 · Self
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013 · Self
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013 · Sound Designer
Escape from Planet Earth
2013 · Sound Designer
Lincoln: An American Journey
2013 · Self
Lincoln
2012 · Sound Designer
009 Re:Cyborg
2012 · Sound Designer
John Carter
2012 · Sound Designer
Wings: Grandeur in the Sky
2012 · Self
Red Tails
2012 · Sound Designer
Red Tails
2012 · Editor
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
2012 · Self
Super 8
2011 · Sound Designer
Super 8
2011 · Supervising Sound Editor
Star Trek
2009 · Special Sound Effects
WALL·E's Treasures & Trinkets
2008 · WALL·E / M-O (voice)
Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up
2008
BURN·E
2008 · WALL·E / M-O (voice) (uncredited)
BURN·E
2008 · Sound Designer
RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”
2008 · Self
WALL·E
2008 · WALL·E / M-O (voice)
WALL·E
2008 · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
WALL·E
2008 · Supervising Sound Editor
WALL·E
2008 · Sound Designer
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008 · Sound Designer
Fog City Mavericks
2007 · Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007 · Self
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007 · Self
Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
2006 · Self
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
2006 · Self
Munich
2005 · Sound Designer
Munich
2005 · Supervising Sound Editor
Within a Minute: The Making of Star Wars Episode III
2005 · Self
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
2005 · Self
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Editor
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