Herman Lewis

Herman Lewis (born November 10, 1910 - February 28, 2001 in Newbury Park , Ventura County , California , United States ) was an American sound engineer who was nominated three times for an Oscar . He is known for his work on the films Planet of the Apes (1968), Tora! Torah! Torah! (1970) and Flaming Inferno (1974) as well as on the television series Perry Mason .

Life

Lewis first appeared in Cecil B. DeMille's film adaptation of the Bible, Samson and Delilah, in 1949 , where he contributed to the sound. Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature played the leading roles. This was followed by participation in numerous films and television productions, with the television series Perry Mason standing out, in which he participated in 188 episodes (1959 to 1966 and another nine episodes in 1973).

In 1971 Lewis and Murray Spivack received an Oscar nomination in the Best Sound category for the American-Japanese war film co-production Tora! Torah! Torah! by Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku with Martin Balsam and Joseph Cotten in two of the leading roles. However, the Oscar went to Don J. Bassman and Douglas O. Williams for the period film Patton - Rebel in Uniform . For the disaster film Die Höllenfahrt der Poseidon , Lewis and Theodore Soderberg again received an Oscar nomination in 1973 in the Best Sound category , but could not prevail over Robert Knudson and David Hildyard with the musical film Cabaret . In 1975 Lewis was nominated for the third time for an Oscar, again along with Soderberg, again for a disaster film, Inferno with Steve McQueen , Paul Newman and William Holden .

Lewis last appeared professionally in 1982. In the television film Family in Blue with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. he was responsible for the sound of the film at the mixer.

Filmography (selection)

• 1949: Samson and Delilah
• 1954: The likable impostor ( Living It Up )
• 1955: Treasury Men in Action (TV series, 9 episodes)
• 1957: Envoy of Horror ( Not of This Earth )
• 1957–1958: Superman - Savior in Need ( Adventures of Superman ; TV series, 13 episodes)
• 1957–1958: Highway Patrol (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 1958: Satan with the Thousand Masks ( How to Make a Monster )
• 1959: Youth without a law ( Riot in Juvenile Prison )
• 1959: No Mercy for Tom Dooley ( The Legend of Tom Dooley )
• 1959–1966: Perry Mason (TV series, 188 episodes)
• 1964: Lullaby for a Corpse ( Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte )
• 1968: Planet of the Apes ( Planet of the Apes )
• 1968: Bandolero
• 1970: Torah! Torah! Torah!
• 1972: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes ( Conquest of the Planet of the Apes )
• 1972: The Poseidon Adventure ( The Poseidon Adventure )
• 1973: Battle for the Planet of the Apes ( Battle for the Planet of the Apes )
• 1973: The New Perry Mason (TV series, 9 episodes)
• 1974: Flammendes Inferno ( The Towering Inferno )
• 1978: The Swarm ( The Swarm )
• 1979: Hunt for the Poseidon ( Beyond the Poseidon Adventure )
• 1979: Trapper John, MD (TV series)
• 1980: The day the world ended ( When Time Ran Out ... )
• 1982: Family in Blue (TV movie)

Awards

• 1966: nominated for the Primetime Emmy , category "Individual Achievements in Electronic Production - Audio Engineering" for Perry Mason (1957)
• 1971: Oscar nomination for Torah! Torah! Torah!
• 1973: Oscar nomination for Poseidon's Hell Ride
• 1975 : Oscar nomination for Flaming Inferno

Web links

• Herman Lewis in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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1. ↑ Herman Lewis , U.S. Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed May 28, 2017
2. ↑ Herman Lewis ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: awardsdatabase.oscars.org; accessed on May 28, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Herman Lewis at IMDb. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
4. ↑ Herman Lewis Awards at IMDb. Retrieved January 27, 2014.