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Occupation:: Sound/Sound Designer

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Don't Let Go

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Scott Wilson, Katharine Ross, Brad Hawkins, Levi Kreis, James Keane

Synopsis: Written and directed by Max Myers, Don't Let Go reflects on the musical past of siblings Jimmy Ray (Scott Wilson) and Billy Joe (Justin Shilton), who headed a rockabilly band called "The Texas Tumbleweeds" in the late '50s. Unfortunately, Jimmy Ray (Wilson) leaves the band for the bottle after his Read More

2002
The Amati Girls

Crew: Sound Mixer

Actors: Mercedes Ruehl, Paul Sorvino, Cloris Leachman, Sean Young, Dinah Manoff

Synopsis: This family drama by actress and first-time director Anne DeSalvo centers around four adult sisters who are forced to re-evaluate their situations after tragedy strikes. The oldest of the clan, Grace (Mercedes Ruehl), is called upon to be the tower of strength, even though she is widely perceived Read More

1/19/01
Warlock: The Armageddon

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Julian Sands, Chris Young, Paula Marshall, Stephen Kahan, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: The sequel to Warlock, this film features the return of the evil warlock (Julian Sands) who is on a quest to search out and obtain a set of six magical runestones needed to summon the Devil to Earth. However, a group of powerful druids have become aware of the sinister plans afoot, and it is up to Read More

1993
Judgment Night

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: In Judgment Night, an action-packed thriller directed by Stephen Hopkins, a group of young middle-class men Emilio Estevez Cuba Gooding Jr. Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff on a night out with the boys take a disastrous wrong turn that leads to a run-in with a vicious street gang led by Fallon (Denis Leary Read More

1993
1969

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder

Synopsis: Ernest Thompson, the playwright responsible for the Pulitzer Prize winning On Golden Pond, makes his directorial debut with 1969. Kiefer Sutherland plays a draft-age youth who undergoes an epiphany when one of his friends is killed in Vietnam. Sutherland's subsequent antiwar stance causes a great Read More

11/18/88
Let's Get Harry

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Glenn Frey, Gary Busey, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Stuart Rosenberg, under the guise of Alan Smithee, directed this action film concerning a soldier of fortune sent into a South American country to rescue a kidnapped American during a revolutionary upheaval. Harry Burk Jr. (Mark Harmon) and United States Ambassador Douglas (Bruce Gray) are held Read More

10/31/86
Commando

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, David Patrick Kelly

Synopsis: Shortly after The Terminator wrote his name in bold neon lights across box-office grosses, this action thriller took advantage of the hitherto (almost) unexploited comic side of star Arnold Schwarzenegger and paired him with Rae Dawn Chong. Colonel Matrix (Schwarzenegger) is retired and living Read More

1985
Sudden Impact

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Paul Drake

Synopsis: In this fourth installment of the Dirty Harry series, Harry has been banished temporarily from San Francisco because his superiors are uncomfortable about his feud with a local crime boss. He goes to an oceanside small town for a little rest and recuperation but finds the town has been traumatized Read More

1983
Honkytonk Man

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood put his tough-guy image on hold for this personal project, which follows a musician taking one final chance at the big time. Red Stovall (Eastwood) is a would-be country singer who has been bouncing around the margins of the music business for years. With nowhere in particular to Read More

1982
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Diane Lane, Peter Donat, David Clennon, John Lehne

Synopsis: A very inexperienced rock band flirts with fame thanks to a valuable assist from the media in this comedy-drama directed by veteran music producer Lou Adler. Corinne Burns (Diane Lane) is a fifteen-year-old orphan who gains a measure of local notoriety when she quits her job at a burger stand Read More

1982
Firefox

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Producer/director/star Clint Eastwood takes his sweet time getting Firefox started. Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a past-his-prime U.S. pilot, smuggled into the Soviet Union to steal a new Russian supersonic fighting plane. Fortunately the KGB men are as burnt out as Gant, enabling him to abscond Read More

1982
Things Are Tough All Over

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Shelby Chong, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Shelby Fiddis, Rikki Marin, Evelyn Guerrero, Rip Taylor

Synopsis: Goofy team Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong play chauffeurs hired by a couple of Arabs (also played by the two) to make a cross-country trip with a limo which happens to contain $5 million hidden inside. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Scavenger Hunt

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little

Synopsis: When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives the entire willed fortune. So 15 potential heirs are sent on a zany quest where they must outrace and outsmart one another to inherit the big bucks. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Just You and Me, Kid

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: George Burns, Brooke Shields, Burl Ives, Lorraine Gary, Nicolas Coster

Synopsis: In this comedy, an elderly ex-vaudevillian is surprised to find a naked young woman in the trunk of his car. He soon discovers that she is a runaway fleeing from both the police and an enraged drug dealer she cheated out of $20,000. Meanwhile, the codger's daughter continually attempts to get him Read More

1979
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Candy Clark, Marjoe Gortner, Stephanie Faracy, Lee Grant, Hal Linden

Synopsis: When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? has been presented often as a stage play by amateur theatrical groups. Evangelist-turned-actor Marjoe Gortner plays Teddy, a cracked Vietnam vet who holds the denizens of a Texas roadside diner hostage at gunpoint. Candy Clark plays Cheryl, his zoned-out hippie Read More

1979
Pretty Baby

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Frances Faye, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: After making a series of acclaimed and controversial films in his native France, director Louis Malle made his American debut with this disturbing but visually beautiful story about Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a prostitute working in New Orleans' Storyville district at the turn of the century. When Read More

1978
One on One

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G.D. Spradlin, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Robby Benson plays a talented but naive high school basketball star who wins a scholarship to a perfection-driven college. Here he discovers that he's way out of his league, easily outclassed athletically by his opponents and by his own team. In addition, he runs up against the sort of Read More

1977
Rolling Thunder

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, Lisa Richards, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: William Devane plays a rare sympathetic role in Rolling Thunder, though his behavior is just as cold-blooded and sharkish as in any of his villainous assignments. Devane is cast as Maj. Charles Rane, a recently released Vietnam POW who is given a hero's welcome in his Texas hometown. Things sour Read More

1977
Swashbuckler

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: A latter-day attempt to update the swordplay success of Errol Flynn movies, this film is part burlesque, part homage to old-fashioned pirate films. James Earl Jones and Robert Shaw play Nick Debrett and Ned Lynch, two pirates who save a noblewoman, Jane Barnet (Geneviève Bujold), and take her to Read More

1976
Hard Times

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Also known as The Streetfighter, Hard Times stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, an aging bare-knuckle boxer, trying to scratch out a living in the middle of the Depression. "Speed" (James Coburn) is the two-bit promoter who books Chaney in the tank towns of the South and Midwest. He is briefly Read More

1975
The Gravy Train

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Mary L. Honaker

Synopsis: The Gravy Train stars Stacy Keach and Frederic Forrest as a husky but none-too-bright pair of West Virginia brothers. Feeling stifled by their blue-collar jobs, the boys become tentatively involved in crime, only to discover that they enjoy working on the wrong side of the law. The moments of Read More

1974
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Vic Morrow, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: Three outlaws hit the road until the road hits back in this supercharged action thriller. Larry (Peter Fonda) is a stock car driver whose reckless nature has caused him a long run of bad luck. Larry and his friend and mechanic Deke (Adam Roarke) need money if they're to get a new car and get back Read More

1974
Coffy

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: John Perak, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus

Synopsis: Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby, Switchblade Sisters) managed to beat Death Wish to the screens by a year with this violent tale of a citizen touched by crime and deciding to fight back. Her little 11-year old sister is a hopeless addict, the police can't help, and poor Nurse "Coffy" Coffin Read More

1973
Dillinger

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: John Milius's first directorial effort in its own small way set the stage in the 1970s for a subgenre of action films that depict a nostalgia for historical figures tinged with a hard-edged skepticism. Warren Oates stars as John Dillinger, whose short-lived career as Public Enemy No.1 was, at Read More

1973
White Lightning

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: When the police pick up Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) for running moonshine, they agree to let him out of jail if he will help them capture the key figures in his moonshine operation. Since the suspected ring leader is the man who killed Gator's little brother, he agrees to help out the cops to Read More

1973
Mean Streets

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a Read More

1973
Kansas City Bomber

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Raquel Welch, Kevin McCarthy, Helena Kallianiotes, Norman Alden, Jeanne Cooper

Synopsis: While Raquel Welch was a household name and an international sex symbol through much of the 1960s'and 1970s, Hollywood didn't seem sure about what to do with her; this was one of her more unusual vehicles from this period, in which Welch plays K.C. Carr, a divorcee with two children who becomes Read More

1972
Fancy Pants

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood, Lea Penman, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Fancy Pants is a musicalized remake of the oft-filmed Harry Leon Wilson story Ruggles of Red Gap, tailored to the talents of "Mr. Robert Hope (formerly Bob)". The basic plotline of the original, that of an English butler entering the service of a rowdy nouveau-riche family from the American West Read More

1950
Ministry of Fear

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Dan Duryea, Carl Esmond, Percy Waram, Hillary Brooke

Synopsis: An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in this shadowy, ominous film noir. Fritz Lang's adaptation of Graham Greene's novel is filled with unusual touches, beginning with the fact that protagonist Stephen Neale (Ray Milland Read More

1944
Henry Aldrich for President

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Charles Smith, June Preisser, Mary Anderson, Martha O'Driscoll

Synopsis: Henry Aldrich for President was the second of Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series to star Jimmy Lydon in the teenaged title role. This time Henry is pitted against an arrogant jock for the presidency of the Centerville High School student council. Henry's chances don't seem bright, especially since Read More

1941
The Lady Eve

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore

Synopsis: (Preston Sturges) wrote and directed this classic romantic comedy starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, who are involved in a scintillating battle of the sexes, as Sturges points up the terrors of sexual passion and the unattainability of the romantic ideal. Henry Fonda plays Charles Pike Read More

1941
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis: The great Ernst Lubitsch directed this farce (written by Charles M. Brackett and Billy Wilder) about a free-wheeling millionaire, Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper), who enjoys getting married but has a hard time staying married: he's had seven wives and is looking for number eight. He thinks he may Read More

1938
Make Way for Tomorrow

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Ray Mayer

Synopsis: While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and movie buffs for its sensitive and perceptive treatment of the problems of the elderly. When McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director the same year for The Awful Truth, he Read More

1937
Swing High, Swing Low

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour

Synopsis: Swing High Swing Low is a new coat of paint on the old stage play Burlesque, first filmed in 1929 as The Dance of Life. Ex-serviceman Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) rises to the uppermost rungs of show business as a bandleader. As his fame swells, so does his head, and he becomes impossibly Read More

1937
I Met Him in Paris

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Mona Barrie, George Davis

Synopsis: After a year-long period of starring in such heavy fare as Maid of Salem, Claudette Colbert returned to comedy with I Met Him in Paris. Colbert plays a successful American fashion designer, squired by three suitors: playwright Melvyn Douglas, playboy Robert Young and hometown lad Lee Bowman. Bowman Read More

1937
True Confession

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall

Synopsis: Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her tongue in her cheek. Helen is married to a Kenneth Bartlett, a scrupulously honest lawyer whose integrity has always held him back professionally. Hoping to help Kenneth Read More

1937

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