John E. Tribby

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John E. Tribby (born October 30, 1903 in Marshall County , Indiana , † February 1983 in Roswell , New Mexico ) was an American film and sound engineer .

biography

Tribby began as a sound engineer in the Studio Sound Department (SSD) of RKO Pictures in the late 1920s and was first involved in the creation of a film at Tanned Legs in 1929 .

At the Academy Awards in November 1930 he was nominated for an Oscar for best tone in the film The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930).

Other well-known films that were made with his assistance as a sound engineer were Aufstand in Sidi Hakim (1938), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Suspicion (1941) and Notorious (1946). Tribby, who has been involved in the creation of over 100 films in the course of his twenty years in the Hollywood film industry , has worked with film directors such as Herbert Brenon , George Stevens , William Dieterle and Alfred Hitchcock .

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