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Walter Murch Biography (1943-)
Full name, Walter Scott Murch; born July 12, 1943, in New York NY; son of Walter Tandy and Katherine (maiden name, Scott) Murch; married Muriel Ann Slater, August 6, 1965; children: Walter, Beatrice, Carrie, Connie. Addresses: Agent: The Mirisch Agency, 1801 Century Park East, Suite #1801, Los Angeles, CA 90067.; Home: 77 Bolinas Rd., Bolinas, CA 94924.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Sound technician, film editor, screenwriter, director
- Birth Details
- July 12, 1943
- New York, New York, United States
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Film Work
- Sound recordist, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (also known as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), 1963
- Sound editor, The Electronic Labyrinth, 1968
- Supervising sound editor and re-recording engineer, The Rain People, Warner Bros., 1969
- (With others) Sound technician, Gimme Shelter, Cinema V, 1970
- Supervising sound editor and re-recording engineer, THX 1138, Warner Bros., 1971
- Supervising sound editor, re-recording engineer, and production consultant, The Godfather (also known as Mario Puzo's The Godfather), Paramount, 1972
- Supervising sound editor and re-recording engineer, American Graffiti, Universal, 1973
- Sound montage and re-recording engineer (with Arthur Rochester) and editor (with Richard Chew), The Conversation, Paramount, 1974
- Supervising sound editor and re-recording engineer, The Godfather: Part II (also known as Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part II), Paramount, 1974
- Sound technician, The Great Gatsby, Paramount, 1974
- Editor, Julia, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977
- Sound designer, montage, and re-recording mixer (with Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, and Nat Boxer) and editor (with Richard Marks, Gerald B. Greenberg,and Lisa Fruchtman), Apocalypse Now, United Artists, 1979
- Sound re-recording mixer (with Mark Berger and Dale Strumpell) Dragonslayer, Paramount, 1981
- Documentary editorial researcher, The Right Stuff, Ladd, 1984
- Director, Return to Oz (also known as The Adventures of the Devil in the Sky), Buena Vista, 1985
- Special creative consultant, The Adventures of Mark Twain (animated), Atlantic, 1985
- Editor, Captain Eo, 1986
- (With B. J. Sears, Vivien Gilliam, and Steven Rotter) Editor, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Orion, 1988
- Editor, Call from Space, 1989
- Supervising sound editor and editor, Ghost, Paramount, 1990
- Supervising sound editor and editor (with Barry Malkin and Lisa Fruchtman), The Godfather: Part III (also known as Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III), Paramount, 1990
- Supervising sound editor and editor, Romeo Is Bleeding, Gramercy,1993
- Supervising sound editor and editor, House of Cards, Miramax, 1993
- Editor, I Love Trouble, Buena Vista, 1994
- Supervising sound editor, Crumb, Sony Pictures Classics, 1994
- Supervising sound editor and editor, First Knight, Columbia, 1995
- Editor, re-recording mixer, and sound technician, The English Patient, Miramax, 1996
- Editor, As I See It, 1997
- Editor of director's cut and re-recording engineer, Touch of Evil,(originally 1958), 1998
- Editor, score producer, and sound re-recording mixer, The Talented Mr.Ripley (also known as The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender SensitiveHaunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley), Paramount, 1999
- Consulting editor, Dumbarton Bridge, 1999
- Editor and sound re-recording mixer, K-19: The Widowmaker, Paramount, 2001
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Film Appearances
- Voice of God, The Electronic Labyrinth, 1968
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Television Appearances
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Episodic
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American Cinema, PBS, 1994
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WRITINGS
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Screenplays
- (With George Lucas) THX 1138, Warner Bros., 1971
- (With Gill Dennis) Return to Oz (also known as The Adventures of the Devil in the Sky), Buena Vista, 1985
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Nonfiction
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In the Blink of an Eye, Silman-James Press, 1992, 2001
Further Reference
OTHER SOURCES
Books
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International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Productions Artists, St. James Press, 1996
Periodicals
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Cinefantastique, July, 1985
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Cinefex, Number 3, 1980
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Entertainment Weekly, June 26, 1998, p. 24
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Film Comment, May, 2001, p. 43
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Film Quarterly, spring, 2000, p. 2
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Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1981
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Positif, Number 335, January, 1989
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San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 1988
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