Walter Murch

Known for EditingBorn 1943-07-12 (age 82)New York City, New York, USA

Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor, director, writer and sound designer. His work includes THX 1138, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, II, and III, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Ghost and The English Patient, with three Academy Award wins (from nine nominations: six for picture editing and three for sound mixing). For his work on Apocalypse Now, Murch was the first person to receive a credit as "Sound Designer." Murch was also the editor and re-recording mixer of Apocalypse Now Redux. In 1998, producer Rick Schmidlin chose Murch as his editor for the restoration of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil. Murch is the author of a popular book on film editing, In the Blink of an Eye, and is the subject of Michael Ondaatje's book The Conversations. Famed movie critic Roger Ebert called Murch "the most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema." David Thomson calls Murch "the scholar, gentleman and superb craftsman of modern film", adding that in sound and editing, "he is now without a peer." Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Murch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Vivien’s Wild Ride

Fog City Mavericks

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

The Godfather

Call from Space

The Godfather Part II

Coup 53

Apocalypse Now

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

Captain EO

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

Crumb

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Side by Side

78/52

The Godfather Part III

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

The Conversation

Particle Fever

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Ghost

The English Patient

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

Gimme Shelter

Cold Mountain

Omnibus

Tetro

The Black Stallion

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jarhead

American Graffiti

The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

The Emperor

K-19: The Widowmaker

Return to Oz

The Oscars

Tomorrowland

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

Dragonslayer

The Apostle

The Rain People

Julia

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Romeo Is Bleeding