George Dutton

George Dutton (born December 19, 1899 in Massachusetts , † May 13, 1977 in San Marcos , California ) was an American film technician , sound engineer and sound engineer who was nominated five times for an Oscar .

Life

Dutton began his career as a film and sound engineer in the Hollywood film industry and was first involved in the making of the film The Crime Nobody Saw (1937) by Charles Barton . In the course of his career he was involved in the making of around twenty other films.

At the end of the 1930s he was involved in the production of films from the Bulldog Drummond series, which was intended as a sequel to the successful crime film Bulldog Drummond (1929) by F. Richard Jones , and to the films such as Bulldog Drummond - Adventure owned in Africa (1938) by Louis King and Scotland Yard disgraced himself (1939) by James P. Hogan .

At the Academy Awards in 1944 he was nominated together with the photographers Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings for the Oscar in the category of best visual effects in the film Brave Women (1943) by Mark Sandrich . In 1945 he was again with Edouart and Jennings for the Oscar for the best visual effects in Dr. Wassell's Escape from Java (1944) nominated by Cecil B. DeMille . A third nomination for the best visual effects came at the Academy Awards in 1948 together with Edouart and Jennings and Devereaux Jennings , W. Wallace Kelley and Paul K. Lerpae for the film The Undefeated (1947) by Cecil B. DeMille.

In 1958 he was awarded an Oscar for Best Sound in the Western Two Reckoning (1957) by John Sturges . Dutton received a final nomination again for the best tone category at the 1959 Academy Awards for the thriller Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock .

Web links

• George Dutton in the Internet Movie Database (English)