Edmund H. Hansen

Edmund H. Hansen (born November 13, 1894 in Springfield , Illinois , † October 10, 1962 in Orange , California ) was an American film and sound engineer who received two Academy Awards .

Life

Hansen began in 1928 in the film In Old Arizona by Irving Cummings as a sound technician in the film industry in Hollywood at Studio Sound Department of the Fox Film Corporation , today's 20th Century Fox .

At the Academy Awards in 1935 he was first nominated for the Oscar for Best Sound in The White Parade (1934). Further nominations in this category followed in 1936 for Music at Midnight (Thanks a Million, 1935), 1937 for Mississippi Melody (1936), 1938 for In Old Chicago (1937), 1939 for Suez (1938) and at the 1940 Academy Awards for Night about India (1939). For this film he also received his first Oscar for best visual effects in 1940 , together with Fred Sersen .

At the Academy Awards in 1941 he was nominated again for two Academy Awards, one for the best tone in The Fruits of Wrath (1940), and again with Fred Sersen for the best visual effects in The Blue Bird (1940). In the following year 1942 he was nominated again twice: on the one hand for the best sound in Schlagende Wetter (1941), on the other hand again with Fred Sersen for the best visual effects in A Yank in the RAF (1941). Further nominations for an Oscar in the best sound category followed in 1943 for This Above All and in 1944 for Das Lied von Bernadette (1943).

At the Academy Awards in 1945 , he won his second Oscar, this time in the "Best Sound" category in Wilson (1944), the film adaptation of the life story of US President Woodrow Wilson .

In addition to Cummings, he has worked with numerous other well-known film directors such as Roy Del Ruth , John Cromwell , Henry King , Allan Dwan , Clarence Brown , John Ford , Walter Lang , Anatole Litvak and Raoul Walsh .

Web links

• Edmund H. Hansen in the Internet Movie Database (English)