Charles L. Campbell

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Charles Lincoln Campbell (born August 17, 1930 , † June 21, 2013 in Los Angeles ) was an American sound engineer and engineer who received three Oscar for best sound editing .

Life

Campbell began working as a sound engineer on documentaries for television in the mid-1960s and then in television films and later on feature films in the 1970s .

For the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) produced documentary film The Night When the Martians Attacked America (The Night That Panicked America, 1975) he won with Lawrence E. Neiman, Colin C. Mouat, Larry Carow, Donald L. Warner Jr., John W. Singleton, Thomas McMullen, Joe Divitale, Carl Kress, John Kline, and John Hanley received an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing in a Special Program. For the television disaster film Feuerfalle (1978 ) produced by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) he was again nominated for outstanding performance in sound editing, together with Lawrence E. Neiman, Colin C. Mouat, Donald L. Warner Jr., David Pettijohn , Pieter Hubbard, Gary Vaughan, Charles E. Moran, Robert Canton, and Martin Varno.

He received his first Oscar for best sound editing at the 1983 Academy Awards with Ben Burtt for ET - The Extra Terrestrial (1982) and was also for the BAFTA Award for best sound with Gene Cantamessa , Robert Knudson , Robert J. Glass and Don Digirolamo nominated.

He won his second Oscar for best sound editing with Robert R. Rutledge in 1986 for Back to the Future (1985).

After winning the BAFTA award for best sound with Louis L. Edemann , Robert Knudson and Tony Dawe for Das Reich der Sonne (1987), he received another award for best sound editing for wrong play at the 1989 Academy Awards with Louis L. Edemann with Roger Rabbit (1988).

His last Oscar nomination for best sound editing came with Richard C. Franklin in 1991 for Flatliners - Today is a Beautiful Day to Die (1990). He was then nominated again in 1994 with Louis L. Edemann, Robert Jackson , Ron Judkins , Andy Nelson , Steve Pederson and Scott Millan for the BAFTA Award for best sound on Schindler's list (1993).

Campbell, who represented the sound engineers branch on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) between 1984 and 1987 , received the 2001 Career Achievement Award from the Movie Editors' Guild ( Motion Picture Sound Editors , MPSE).

He was also nominated several times by the MPSE for their Golden Reel Award : 2003 with John A. Larsen, RJ Kizer, Susan Dawes and Mildred Iatrou for Catch Me If You Can (2002), 2004 with Richard C. Franklin, Mildred Iatrou, Christopher T. Welch, Chuck Michael, Doug Jackson, Ronald Eng, Bruce Richardson, Kimberly Lowe and Carin Rogers for the cartoon Sinbad - The Lord of the Seven Seas (2003) and most recently in 2005 with Richard C. Franklin, RJ Kizer, Mildred Iatrou, Bernard Weiser and Vanessa Lapato for Terminal (2004).

During his decades-long career, Charles L. Campbell has worked with film directors such as Steven Spielberg , Patrick Gilmore , Tim Johnson , Joseph Sargent , Mel Stuart , Robert Zemeckis and Joel Schumacher .

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SURNAME Campbell, Charles L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Charles Lincoln (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound engineer and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1930
DATE OF DEATH June 21th 2013
Place of death los Angeles