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Murray Spivack

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Occupation
  
Sound engineer

Years active
  
1930-1978


Name
  
Murray Spivack

Role
  
Sound engineer

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Born
  
September 6, 1903 (
1903-09-06
)
Russia

Died
  
May 8, 1994, Los Angeles, California, United States

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

Similar People
  
John DeCuir, Ernest Lehman, Gene Kelly, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda

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Murray Spivack (6 September 1903 – 8 May 1994) was a Russian-born American sound engineer best known as the sound designer for the 1933 film King Kong. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for another in the same category. He was also a drum teacher whose students included Louie Bellson, Remo Belli, David Garibaldi, William Kraft and Joe Morello.

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Awards

Spivack won an Academy Award and was nominated for another:

Won
  • Hello, Dolly! (1969)
  • Nominated
  • Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
  • References

    Murray Spivack Wikipedia