David Lee (sound engineer, 1938)

David Lee (born 1938 in Scotland , † October 16, 2008 in Panama City , Panama ) was a British sound engineer .

Life

Lee began his career with the BBC . and made his film debut in 1973 as a sound engineer on Ivan Reitman's horror comedy Cannibal Girls . He then worked on a number of Hollywood productions such as Police Academy - Dumber Than the Police Allowed and The Night of Adventures in the 1980s and Santa Clause - A Nice Christmas Present and Crash in the 1990s. In 2003 he and Michael Minkler and Dominick Tavella received the Oscar in the Best Sound forChicago . In the same year he also received the BAFTA Film Award in the Best Sound category. He was nominated twice for a Primetime Emmy for his work on television productions; In 1987 he received the award for the miniseries Cause of Death - Agent Orange .

In addition, Lee was a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and taught at the International School of Film and Television in Havana . He died at the age of 70 as a result of a brief serious illness in Panama City.

1984: Three people flee (Mrs. Soffel)
1984: Police Academy - Dumber than the police allow (Police Academy)
1986: Police Academy 3 - ... and nobody can stop you (Police Academy 3: Back in Training)
1987: The Night of Adventure (Adventures in Babysitting)
1988: A woman is her husband (Switching Channels)
1991: Deceived (Deceived)
1993: Help! Everybody's the greatest (Life with Mikey)
1994: Santa Clause - The Santa Clause
1995: One and One Makes Four (It Takes Two)
1996: crash
1998: Studio 54
2000: Shang-High Noon
2000: X-Men
2002: Chicago
2002: John Q. - Desperate Anger (John Q.)
2004: Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004: Willkommen in Mooseport (Welcome to Mooseport)
2005: The End - Assault on Precinct 13 (Assault on Precinct 13)
2006: Silent Hill