Walter Murch Biography (1943-)

Full name, Walter Scott Murch; born July 12, 1943, in New York NY; son of Walter Tandy and Katherine (maiden name, Scott) Murch; married Muriel Ann Slater, August 6, 1965; children: Walter, Beatrice, Carrie, Connie. Addresses: Agent: The Mirisch Agency, 1801 Century Park East, Suite #1801, Los Angeles, CA 90067.; Home: 77 Bolinas Rd., Bolinas, CA 94924.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sound technician, film editor, screenwriter, director
Birth Details: July 12, 1943; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Sound recordist, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (also known as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), 1963
Sound editor, The Electronic Labyrinth, 1968
Supervising sound editor and re-recording engineer, The Rain People, Warner Bros., 1969
(With others) Sound technician, Gimme Shelter, Cinema V, 1970
Supervising sound editor and re-recording engineer, THX 1138, Warner Bros., 1971
Supervising sound editor, re-recording engineer, and production consultant, The Godfather (also known as Mario Puzo's The Godfather), Paramount, 1972
Supervising sound editor and re-recording engineer, American Graffiti, Universal, 1973
Sound montage and re-recording engineer (with Arthur Rochester) and editor (with Richard Chew), The Conversation, Paramount, 1974
Supervising sound editor and re-recording engineer, The Godfather: Part II (also known as Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part II), Paramount, 1974
Sound technician, The Great Gatsby, Paramount, 1974
Editor, Julia, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977
Sound designer, montage, and re-recording mixer (with Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, and Nat Boxer) and editor (with Richard Marks, Gerald B. Greenberg,and Lisa Fruchtman), Apocalypse Now, United Artists, 1979
Sound re-recording mixer (with Mark Berger and Dale Strumpell) Dragonslayer, Paramount, 1981
Documentary editorial researcher, The Right Stuff, Ladd, 1984
Director, Return to Oz (also known as The Adventures of the Devil in the Sky), Buena Vista, 1985
Special creative consultant, The Adventures of Mark Twain (animated), Atlantic, 1985
Editor, Captain Eo, 1986

(With B. J. Sears, Vivien Gilliam, and Steven Rotter) Editor, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Orion, 1988
Editor, Call from Space, 1989
Supervising sound editor and editor, Ghost, Paramount, 1990
Supervising sound editor and editor (with Barry Malkin and Lisa Fruchtman), The Godfather: Part III (also known as Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III), Paramount, 1990
Supervising sound editor and editor, Romeo Is Bleeding, Gramercy,1993
Supervising sound editor and editor, House of Cards, Miramax, 1993
Editor, I Love Trouble, Buena Vista, 1994
Supervising sound editor, Crumb, Sony Pictures Classics, 1994
Supervising sound editor and editor, First Knight, Columbia, 1995
Editor, re-recording mixer, and sound technician, The English Patient, Miramax, 1996
Editor, As I See It, 1997
Editor of director's cut and re-recording engineer, Touch of Evil,(originally 1958), 1998
Editor, score producer, and sound re-recording mixer, The Talented Mr.Ripley (also known as The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender SensitiveHaunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley), Paramount, 1999
Consulting editor, Dumbarton Bridge, 1999
Editor and sound re-recording mixer, K-19: The Widowmaker, Paramount, 2001
Film Appearances
Voice of God, The Electronic Labyrinth, 1968
Television Appearances
Episodic
American Cinema, PBS, 1994
WRITINGS
Screenplays
(With George Lucas) THX 1138, Warner Bros., 1971
(With Gill Dennis) Return to Oz (also known as The Adventures of the Devil in the Sky), Buena Vista, 1985
Nonfiction
In the Blink of an Eye, Silman-James Press, 1992, 2001

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Productions Artists, St. James Press, 1996

Periodicals

Cinefantastique, July, 1985
Cinefex, Number 3, 1980
Entertainment Weekly, June 26, 1998, p. 24
Film Comment, May, 2001, p. 43
Film Quarterly, spring, 2000, p. 2
Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1981
Positif, Number 335, January, 1989
San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 1988

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