Loren L. Ryder

Loren Lincoln Ryder (born May 9, 1900 in California , † May 28, 1985 in Monterey , California) was an American sound engineer and sound engineer who was nominated several times for the Oscar for best sound and the Oscar for special effects and one Honorary Oscar received in both 1950 ( Technical Achievement Award ) and 1978 Medal of Commendation .

biography

Ryder studied after school at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1924 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from.

Later he was involved in several movies and made his debut as a sound engineer in the film The Island of Lost Souls ( Iceland of Lost Souls , 1932) by Erle C. Kenton . In 1938 he was nominated for the Oscar for the best sound in the sound Frisco-Express (Wells Fargo) for the first time. Other Oscar nominations for Best Sound include If I Were King ( 1939 ), Three Quarter Time on Broadway ( 1940 ), The Scarlet Riders ( 1941 ), Marriage Possession ( 1942 ), The Road to Morocco ( 1943 ), Riding High ( 1944 ), Woman Without a Conscience ( 1945 ), Death Lives Next Door ( 1946 ), Battle of the Worlds ( 1954 ) and The Ten Commandments ( 1957 )

Ryder, who founded his own recording studio Ryder Sound Services in 1948, received Oscar nominations for special effects for the films Union Pacific (1939) and Hell of the South Seas (1941). His other films also included Das Fenster zum Hof (1954), directed by Alfred Hitchcock . During his work as a sound engineer he contributed to some innovations in sound engineering.

At the Academy Awards in 1950 he received an honorary Oscar for the first time in the form of the Technical Achievement Award . He received a second honorary Oscar with the Medal of Commendation at the 1979 Academy Awards .

Web links

• Loren L. Ryder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Loren L. Ryder at Turner Classic Movies (English)
• Biography (The Oscar Site)