Carlton W. Faulkner

Carlton Wilson Faulkner (born June 7, 1904 in Bay Hundred , Maryland , † January 28, 1967 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American sound engineer who won an Oscar for best sound and an Oscar for technical merit as well received an Academy Award of Merit.

Life

Faulkner began his work as a sound engineer in the recording studio division of 20th Century Fox in the 1940s and was awarded an Oscar for engineering at the 1947 Academy Awards for "reverse bias, including a double bias method for light valve and galvanometer records." Merits ( Academy Technical Achievement Award ). At the Academy Awards in 1954 he received an Academy Award of Merit "for the design, development and manufacture of the equipment, the process and the technology of the CinemaScope procedure " together with Henri Chrétien , Earl Sponable , Sol Halperin , Lorin Grignon , Herbert Gragg and Fred Waller .

At the Academy Awards in 1956 he was nominated for the first time for the Oscar for the best sound , namely for All Glory on Earth (Original title: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, 1955) by Henry King with William Holden , Jennifer Jones and Torin Thatcher in the Leading roles.

At the subsequent Academy Awards in 1957 , he won the Oscar for best sound for the musical film Der König und Ich (1956) directed by Walter Lang with Deborah Kerr , Yul Brynner and Rita Moreno .

Faulkner received another nomination for an Oscar for best sound in 1959 for the early anti-war film The Young Lions (1958) by director Edward Dmytryk with Marlon Brando , Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin . A final Oscar nomination in this category, he also received at the Academy Awards in 1960 for Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) after the novel by Jules Verne , the Henry Levin with James Mason , Pat Boone and Arlene Dahl staged in the lead roles. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in This Film, along with LB Abbott and James B. Gordon .

personal data
SURNAME	Faulkner, Carlton W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Faulkner, Carlton Wilson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bay Hundred , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH	January 28, 1967
Place of death	Los Angeles , California