Walter Goss

Walter Goss (born July 21, 1928 in San Bernardino , California - † July 26, 2012 ) was an American sound engineer .

Life

Goss joined the US Navy in 1946 , where he completed an electronics training course. He then moved to the US Army , where he was responsible for maintaining the radar systems as a master sergeant and was deployed in the Korean War . In 1954 he resigned from the military and initially got a job at Paramount Pictures , after which he switched to Warner Bros. Entertainment as a sound engineer , where he made his film debut with Otto Preminger's Der Kardinal .

In 1973 he was nominated for Everyone's First To Die, along with Jim Atkinson and Doug E. Turner for the BAFTA Film Award in the Best Sound category. 1978 he worked for The depth together with Rick Alexander , Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory for the Oscar in the category Best Sound nominated.

Goss retired from the movie business in 1991 after Mark L. Lester's action film Showdown in Little Tokyo . He died in 2012 at the age of 84, leaving behind his wife and three sons. His daughter had died three years earlier.

Filmography

• 1963: The Cardinal (The Cardinal)
• 1966: Three on a Couch (Three on a Couch)
• 1967: In the Heat of the Night
• 1968: Thomas Crown is unbelievable (The Thomas Crown Affair)
• 1972: Everyone dies when they die (Deliverance)
• 1977: The depth (The Deep)
• 1977: Exorcist II - The Heretic (Exorcist II: The Heretic)
• 1979: A Rabbi in the Wild West (The Frisco Kid)
• 1989: Call for Retribution (Next of Kin)
• 1991: Showdown in Little Tokyo

Awards

• 1973: BAFTA Film Award in the Best Sound category for Everyone Is First To Die
• 1978 : Oscar nomination in the Best Sound category for The Depth

Web links

• Walter Goss in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Obituary of the Las Vegas Review-Journal (English)
2. ↑ BAFTA Awards 1973 (English)
3. ↑ Oscars 1978 (English)