Ben Burtt
Sound
馃巶 1948-07-12
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.
Cast credits(40)
WALL路E / M-O (voice)
2008
Naboo Courier (uncredited)
1999
'Freeze' Officer in Endor Bunker / Tortured Power Droid (voice)
1983
WALL路E / M-O (voice) (uncredited)
2009
Self - Sound Designer and Editor
2022
Self - Editor
2022
Self - Interviewee
2014
WALL路E / M-O (voice) (uncredited)
2008
Self
2019
Self
2021
Self - Sound Designer
2004
Self
1983
Self
2002
Self
1997
Self
2001
Self
2013
Self
2002
Self
2007
Self
2005
Self
2005
Self
1980
Self
2002
Self
2007
Self
2013
Self
2018
Himself
2015
Self
2005
Self
2006
Self
1980
Self
1996
Self
2006
2008
Self
2012
WALL路E / M-O (voice)
2008
Self
2012
Self
2004
Self
2003
Self
2014
Self
2008
Sound (47)
Sound Designer
1979
Sound Designer
1977
Supervising Sound Editor
2008
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
2008
Sound Designer
2008
Sound Designer
1981
Sound Designer
2015
Sound Designer
1989
Supervising Sound Editor
2005
Sound Designer
2005
Supervising Sound Editor
1999
Sound Designer
1999
Sound Designer
2008
Sound Designer
1984
Sound Designer
1980
Sound Designer
2012
Sound Designer
2013
Sound Designer
1983
Sound Designer
2002
Supervising Sound Editor
2002
Sound Designer
2009
Sound Designer
2011
Supervising Sound Editor
2011
Sound Designer
2005
Supervising Sound Editor
2005
Sound Designer
2012
Sound Designer
1988
Sound Designer
2012
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
1986
Sound Effects Editor
1986
Sound Effects Designer
1978
Sound Designer
2014
Sound Designer
2013
Sound Designer
1975
Sound Designer
1989
Supervising Sound Editor
1979
Sound Effects
1978
Sound Designer
2012
Sound Designer
2008
Sound Designer
1984
Sound Effects
1982
Sound Designer
1996
Sound Designer
2000
Sound Designer
1999
Sound Designer
2021
Sound Designer
1999
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
1975
