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Ben Burtt

Ben Burtt

Sound Design

, United States

The story

He built a droid's soul out of beeps and a lightsaber's hum from a broken projector, proving the most iconic voices in cinema were never spoken by anyone at all. Created the sound of the lightsaber, R2-D2, and WALL-E, inventing the modern craft of narrative sound design.

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