Ben BurttFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Editor, Sound/Sound Designer, Screenwriter, Supervising Sound Editor
Biography:: Sound editor Ben Burtt has played a crucial role in creating the magical ambiance of George Lucas' classic sci-fi fantasy adventure series Star Wars and Indiana Jones; it was he who created the "voices" for R2D2, Chewbacca and E.T. In addition to his brilliant work with Lucas, Burtt has also...Read More

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WALL-E

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Macintalk

Synopsis: Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Read More

6/27/08
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Shia LaBeouf, Igor Jijikine

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite archeologist adventurer dusts off his hat and trusty whip for yet another globetrotting trek as Indiana Jones returns to the big screen nearly 20 years after racing for the Holy Grail alongside his father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Harrison Ford reprises his Read More

5/22/08
Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco

Actors: Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Saul Zaentz

Synopsis: While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists who treasure their independence and carefully guard their creative Read More

2007
The Last King of Scotland

Crew: Second Assistant Director

Actors: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney

Synopsis: Director Kevin MacDonald teams with screenwriter Jeremy Brock to adapt Giles Foden's novel detailing the brutal reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen through the eyes of his personal physician. James McAvoy stars as the doctor who slowly realizes that he is trapped in an inescapable Read More

9/27/06
Munich

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

12/23/05
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Crew: Editor, Sound/Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Ian McDiarmid, Jimmy Smits, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: George Lucas draws the Star Wars film series to a close with this dark sci-fi adventure which sets the stage for the events of the first film and brings the saga full circle. After a fierce battle in which Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) join Republic forces to help free Read More

5/19/05
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Crew: Editor, Sound/Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: The second prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy takes place ten years after the events depicted in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. Now 20, young Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is an apprentice to respected Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). Unusually powerful in Read More

5/16/02
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Pernilla August

Synopsis: In 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars, the ultimate sci-fi popcorn flick-turned-pop-culture myth machine. It quickly became the biggest money-making film of all time and changed the shape of the film industry. After two successful sequels (1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Read More

5/19/99
Special Effects

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This is an IMAX documentary. For those not familiar with IMAX, it is a filmmaking process which uses many, many times the standard film frames-per-second, (on an order of hundreds-to-one) and it is recorded on 70 mm film, which is much larger than standard film format. These techniques result in Read More

1996
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Chapter 12 - Attack of the Hawkmen

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Ronny Coutteure, Patrick Toomey, Marc Warren, Craig Kelly

Synopsis: This episode in the continuing saga of the brave young adventurer has Indy accepting an assignment to take reconnaissance photos for a squadron of WWII fighters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Blue Planet

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Blue Planet presents photographic images of the earth taken from outer space. Only about 300 people have ever had the opportunity to study the world from the vantage point of the heavens, and this cinematic documentary gives viewers the chance to experience that wonder. It inspires an emotional Read More

1993
The American Gangster

Crew: Director

Actors: Dennis Farina

Synopsis: This documentary look at the origins of American crime and gangsters features actual film footage and photographs of a number of famous criminals, including Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel, and others. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
The True Story of "Glory" Continues

Crew: Director

1991
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, River Phoenix

Synopsis: The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged Read More

5/24/89
Willow

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Patricia Hayes, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Though Willow was one of director Ron Howard's few box-office disappointments, it definitely deserves a second look. At once an epic celebration and a gentle spoof of the sword-and-sorcery genre, the film concerns the efforts by little person Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) to protect a sacred Read More

5/20/88
The Dream is Alive

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This video presents a look at the space shuttle, from its design and construction to life onboard the craft. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, the program traces the human effort to realize the dream of space exploration. The video goes behind the scenes for an intimate look at daily activities of Read More

1985
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth

Synopsis: The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand Read More

1984
Return of the Jedi

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels

Synopsis: In the final episode of the Star Wars saga, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) emerges intact from the carbonite casing in which he'd been sealed in The Empire Strikes Back. The bad news is that Solo, together with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), is prisoner to the grotesque Read More

1983
The Dark Crystal

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: John Baddeley, David Buck, Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Dave Goelz, Brian Muehl, Stephen Garlick

Synopsis: Jim Henson ventures into Tolkien territory in his all-Muppet fantasy feature The Dark Crystal. The titular Crystal maintains equilibrium in a mythical kingdom. When the Crystal is broken, the evil Skeksis take over, killing off the good-guy Gelflings and enslaving everyone else. Two of the Read More

1982
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Crew: Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler

Synopsis: Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French Read More

1981
The Empire Strikes Back

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker

Synopsis: The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the first film, now a seasoned space warrior. Luke's Star Wars cohorts Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are likewise more experienced in the ways and means Read More

1980
Star Wars

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: George Lucas' mythological popcorn movie is a two-hour roller-coaster ride that has passed into movie legend. The story, for the tiny number of people not familiar with it, concerns a farm boy named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) who discovers that the used robot recently purchased by his family Read More

1977
12/31: Flood of 2005

Crew: Director