George Groves

This article covers the sound engineer George Groves. For the boxer of the same name, see George Groves (Boxer) .

George Robert Groves (born December 13, 1901 in St Helens , Merseyside , England , † September 4, 1976 in North Hollywood , California ) was a British - American sound engineer who received two Oscar for best sound .

Life

Groves, who emigrated to the United States in 1923, began working as a sound engineer on film productions in Hollywood in the mid-1920s , was involved in the creation of a film for the first time in Alan Crosland's Don Juan - The Great Lover (1926) and was also part of the film crew for the first Sound film The Jazz Singer (1927) by Alan Crosland.

He worked for the First National Studio Sound Department in the 1930s and was first nominated for the Best Sound Oscar for The Song of the Flame (1930) by A. Crosland at the November 1930 Academy Awards.

In 1958 he received the Oscar for the best sound for the first time, namely for Sayonara (1957) by Joshua Logan .

He was then nominated three more times for the Oscar in the best sound category: first at the 1960 Academy Awards for The Story of a Nun (1959) by Fred Zinnemann , in 1961 for Sunrise at Campobello (1960) by Vincent J. Donehue and at the 1963 Academy Awards for Music Man (1962) by Morton DaCosta .

The sound in My Fair Lady (1964) by George Cukor was followed by the award of his second Academy Award in 1965 .

After that, Groves was nominated two more times for the Oscar in the best tone category, on the one hand at the 1966 Academy Awards for The Great Race Around the World (1965) by Blake Edwards , on the other hand in 1967 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) by Mike Nichols .

Other films in which he worked as a sound engineer were Panik in New York (1953) by Eugène Lourié and Woodstock (1970) by Michael Wadleigh .

Web links

• George Groves in the Internet Movie Database (English)