🎬Ben Burtt

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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett (2021)	Self		7.5
2	Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)	Self		8.5
3	I Am Your Father (2015)	Himself		6.7
4	And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)	Self - Interviewee		7
5	Lincoln: An American Journey (2013)	Self	-	-
6	Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of (2012)	Self	-	-
7	WALL·E (2008) Top 100 by FilmGator	WALL·E / M-O (voice)		8.3
8	BURN·E (2008)	WALL·E / M-O (voice) (uncredited)		7.7
9	The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)	Self		7
10	Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema (2005)	Self		9
11	Star Wars: Within a Minute - The Making of Episode III (2005)	Self		9
12	When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)	Self	-	-
13	Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004)	Self - Sound Designer		7
14	From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II' (2002)	Self	-	-
15	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Oscars 2003	Wat Tambor (uncredited)		7
16	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom (1999)	Director / Writer	-	-
17	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure (1999)	Director / Writer	-	-
18	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life (1999)	Director / Writer	-	-
19	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell (1999)	Director / Writer		7
20	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) Oscars 2000	Naboo Courier (uncredited)		6.7
21	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues (1999)	Director / Writer		8
22	Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996)	Director / Writer	-	-
23	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen (1995)	Director / Writer	-	-
24	Blue Planet (1990)	Director / Writer	-	-
25	From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (1983)	Self		10
26	Return of the Jedi (1983)	Director / Writer		8.3