Sound Designer Profile

 

Walter Murch 




Walter Scott Murch was born July 12, 1943. He is an American film editor, director and sound designer. His career stretches all the way back to 1969, including work on Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, II, and III, American Graffiti, The Conversation, and The English Patient. He also has three Academy Award wins. He has been referred to by Roger Ebert as "the most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema". 

Walter Murch started editing and mixing sound with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969).

He then worked on George Lucas' THX 1138 and American Graffiti and Coppola's The Godfather before editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola's The Conversation for which he received an Academy Award nomination in sound in 1974. He was also significantly involved in the re-editing work that resulted in the extended Apocalypse Now redux in 2001.

In 1985 he directed his only feature film, Return to Oz, which he co-wrote with Gill Dennis. After the film failed at the box office, he never directed another film again.

He then went on to work on so many more films and was awarded Oscars. In 2012 Murch received the Nikola Tesla Award.

He is the only film editor to have received Academy Award nominations for films edited on four different systems.

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