Richard Beggs

Richard Beggs (born January 8, 1942 in San Francisco , California ) is an American sound designer and sound engineer .

Life

Beggs began his career in 1979 with Francis Ford Coppola's war film Apocalypse Now , for which he won an Oscar for Best Sound the following year along with Walter Murch , Mark Berger and Nathan Boxer . This would be his only Oscar nomination. Beggs was subsequently involved in numerous science fiction films as a sound designer, including Ghostbusters in the 1980s - The Ghostbusters , Critters - You Are Here! and Mel Brooks' Spaceballs . as well as in the 1990s Sphere - The Power from Space and Galaxy Quest - Planlessly through space . He also worked as a sound engineer and mixer.

Filmography (selection)

• 1979: Apocalypse Now
• 1984: Cotton Club (The Cotton Club)
• 1984: Ghostbusters - Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters)
• 1986: Critters - You Are Here! (Critters)
• 1987: Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (Spaceballs)
• 1988: Rain Man
• 1988: Two Adorably Depraved Villains (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• 1990: The Godfather III (The Godfather Part III)
• 1991: Bugsy
• 1993: The Cradle of the Sun (Rising Sun)
• 1996: Sleepers
• 1998: Sphere - The Force from Space (Sphere)
• 1999: Galaxy Quest - Planlessly through space (Galaxy Quest)
• 2003: Lost in Translation
• 2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• 2005: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Awards (selection)

• 1980 : Oscar for Best Sound for Apocalypse Now

Web links

• Richard Beggs in the Internet Movie Database (English)