Treg Brown

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Tregoweth "Treg" Edmond Brown (* 4. November 1899 in Gilbert , Minnesota ; † 28. April 1984 in Irvine , California ) was an American film editor and sound engineer , who was a pioneer in the field of sound effects, and in 1966 the Oscar for won the best sound effects .

Life

Treg Brown began his career as a film editor and sound engineer in 1932 and worked in the following decades on the production of over 1,000 mostly animated short films . He is particularly known for his collaboration with animation directors such as Tex Avery , Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng and for his sound effects for animated films by Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies with Bugs Bunny , Speedy Gonzales , Sylvester and Tweety , Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote .

Brown, also known as “Docteur” because of his extraordinary talents, was a master at creating innumerable sound effects with the help of mundane objects: for example, he could crumple up newspapers so that it sounded like any kind of fire. Its sounds were so professional and realistic that these sound effects are still used today.

He also campaigned for other colleagues and managed to get Leon Schlesinger , the film producer of Warner Bros. , among others, to hire Mel Blanc , a former radio announcer, as the “voice” in 1937 : Blanc soon became a sought-after speaker for numerous Looney characters Tunes like Yosemite Sam , Foghorn Leghorn , Tweety , Porky Pig or Daffy Duck . With his natural voice, Blanc also spoke to the cat Sylvester , who keeps trying to catch the little bird Tweety. But the rabbit Bugs Bunny became his most famous character.

In the cartoon One Froggy Evening , directed by Chuck Jones in 1955, a cartoon memorial is set for Brown: the skyscraper in which the main cartoon character Michigan J. Frog is buried is named "Tregoweth Brown Building".

At the 1966 Academy Awards, he won the Oscar for Best Sound Effects in The Great Race Around the World (1965) by Blake Edwards with Tony Curtis , Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood .

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SURNAME Brown, Treg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Tregoweth Edmond (full name); Brown, Treg Edmond (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor, sound engineer and film technology pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Gilbert , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1984
Place of death Irvine , California