Ben Burtt

• a.k.a. Benjamin Burtt Jr.

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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.

Gender

male

Date of Birth

12 Jul 1948 (age 77)

Place of Birth

Jamesville, New York, USA