Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The voice of "Wall-E," the lightsaber sounds from "Star Wars" and Darth Vader's breathing are just a fraction of what sound mixer, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Burtt created the sound of my childhood. He gets that a lot. "Yeah, I hear that often," says the legendary sound designer, ...

The four-time Oscar winner, creator of the iconic lightsaber swoosh and Darth Vader's mechanical breathing, will receive Locarno's Vision Award for "extending the horizons of cinema." By Scott ...

How many actors does it take to play Darth Vader? Well, there’s David Prowse, the original physical Vader in the original trilogy. Then there’s James Earl Jones providing his iconic voice. In Revenge ...

Benjamin Burtt has a long history in film as a director, editor and screenwriter but he’s best known for the sounds he has created — the hum of the lightsabers in the first “Stars Wars” film, for ...

Oscar buzz is nothing new for Ben Burtt. Burtt won his first Oscar in 1978 for his work on the original “Star Wars” — he created the creature and droid voices — and his second in 1981 for “Raiders of ...

The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to award-winning Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones sound engineer, editor and voice actor Ben Burtt at its upcoming 77th edition in ...

The voice of “Wall-E,” the lightsaber sounds from “Star Wars” and Darth Vader’s breathing are just a fraction of what sound mixer, designer and editor Ben Burtt has contributed to the world of cinema.

Star Wars sound design pioneer and Lucasfilm royalty Ben Burtt confirmed that it’s his breathing we hear as Darth Vader. How many actors does it take to play Darth Vader? Well, there’s David Prowse, ...