Ben Burtt
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The ThumbScore for Ben Burtt (77.5%) is the average audience approval rating across 2 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Ben's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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.
Born 1948-07-12 in Jamesville, New York, USA.
On ThumbScore, Ben Burtt appears in 2 films with an average audience score of 77.5%, most frequently in the Animation genre.
Sources: TMDB
