Ben Burtt
Sound
1948-07-12
Jamesville, New York, USA
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.
Acting40 credits
7.9LIGHT & MAGIC
2022 · TV
Sound39 credits
Directing13 credits
Editing9 credits
Writing5 credits
Crew2 credits
5.9Porklips Now
1980
Production1 credits
Creator1 credits
5.4Star Wars: Droids
1985 · TV
