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Alan Splet is a Sound Designer and Special Sound Effects born on 31 december 1939

Alan Splet

Alan Splet
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Birth 31 december 1939
Death 2 december 1994 (at 54 years) at Berkeley (USA)

Alan Splet (December 31, 1939 - December 2, 1994) was a sound designer and sound editor. In 1979, he won an Oscar for his work on the film The Black Stallion. He did not attend the Academy Award ceremony, and became the butt of a series of jokes by Johnny Carson. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound for Never Cry Wolf.

He had a long-lasting and fruitful working relationship with the director David Lynch, with whom he worked on many films, including Eraserhead, Dune, and Blue Velvet.

Best films

Dead Poets Society (1989)
(Supervising Sound Editor)
Rising Sun (1993)
(Music Editor)
The Black Stallion (1979)
(Supervising Sound Editor)
Dune (1984)
(Sound Designer)
The Elephant Man (1980)
(Special Sound Effects)
Blue Velvet (1986)
(Sound Designer)

Usually with

David Lynch
David Lynch
(4 films)
Jack Nance
Jack Nance
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alan Splet (10 films)

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Sound

Rising Sun
Rising Sun (1993)
, 2h5
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Films about suicide, Yakuza films, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako Iwamatsu
Roles Music Editor
Rating61% 3.0999753.0999753.0999753.0999753.099975
During a party at the United States offices of a Japanese corporation in Los Angeles, a professional escort named Cheryl Lynn Austin (Tatjana Patitz) is found dead, apparently after a violent sexual encounter. Police Detectives Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) and John Connor (Sean Connery), a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs, are sent to act as liaison between the Japanese executives and the investigating officer, Smith's former partner Tom Graham (Harvey Keitel).
Mountains of the Moon, 2h16
Directed by Bob Rafelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Roshan Seth, John Savident
Roles Supervising Sound Editor
Rating70% 3.542773.542773.542773.542773.54277
Exploratory adventures of 1857, Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen), try to discover the true source of the Nile river.
Henry & June, 2h23
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Richard E. Grant, Maria de Medeiros, Kevin Spacey, Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Roles Sound Designer
Rating62% 3.148673.148673.148673.148673.14867
The story takes place in and around Paris, France in 1931. The story told is one of a love triangle between the Millers and Anaïs Nin. She is in a stable relationship with her husband Hugo, but longs for more out of life. When Nin first meets Henry Miller, he is working on his first novel. Nin is drawn to Miller and his wife June, as well as their bohemian lifestyle. Nin becomes involved in the couple's tormented relationship, having an affair with Miller and also pursuing June. Ultimately, Nin helps Miller to publish his novel, Tropic of Cancer, but catalyzes the Millers' separation, while she returns to Hugo.
Dead Poets Society, 2h8
Directed by Peter Weir
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd
Roles Supervising Sound Editor
Rating81% 4.052034.052034.052034.052034.05203
In 1959, shy Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) begins his senior year of high school at Welton Academy, an elite prep boarding school. He is assigned one of Welton's most promising students, Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), as his roommate and is quickly accepted by Neil's friends: romantic Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles), overachiever Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), best friends Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero) and Gerard Pitts (James Waterston), and mischievous beatnik Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen).
Blue Velvet, 2h
Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Serial killer films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell
Roles Sound Designer
Rating76% 3.8493753.8493753.8493753.8493753.849375
Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns to his logging home town of Lumberton, North Carolina from Oak Lake College after his father suffers a near-fatal stroke. While walking home from the hospital, he cuts through a vacant lot and discovers a severed ear. Jeffrey takes the ear to police detective John Williams (George Dickerson), through whom he reacquaints with the detective's daughter, Sandy (Laura Dern). She tells him details about the ear case and a suspicious woman, Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), who may be connected to the case. Increasingly curious, Jeffrey enters Dorothy's apartment by posing as an exterminator, and while Dorothy is distracted by a man dressed in a yellow suit at her door (whom Jeffrey later refers to as the Yellow Man), Jeffrey steals her spare key.
Dune
Dune (1984)
, 2h17
Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Sur une planète fictive, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Dystopian films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Everett McGill, Sting, Max von Sydow, José Ferrer
Roles Sound Designer
Rating62% 3.1490753.1490753.1490753.1490753.149075
Ten thousand years in the futurethe known universe is ruled by Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. The most important substance in the empire is the drug known as melange or "the spice". It has many special properties, such as extending life and expanding consciousness. The most profitable and important of its properties is its ability to assist the Spacing Guild with folding space, which allows safe, instantaneous interstellar travel.
The Black Stallion, 1h54
Directed by Carroll Ballard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Hoyt Axton, Clarence Muse, Michael Higgins
Roles Supervising Sound Editor
Rating73% 3.6958353.6958353.6958353.6958353.695835
Alec Ramsey is aboard the steamer Drake off the coast of North Africa, where he sees a wild black stallion being forced into a makeshift stable and heavily restrained by ropes leading to his halter. Captivated by the horse, Alec later sneaks to the horse to feed him some sugar cubes, but he is caught by the horse's supposed owner, who tells him in Arabic to stay away from Shetan and shoves the boy away.
Eraserhead
Eraserhead (1978)
, 1h29
Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about families
Actors Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Jack Fisk, Jennifer Lynch, Judith Anna Roberts
Roles Sound
Rating73% 3.6506753.6506753.6506753.6506753.650675
The Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk) pulls levers in his home in space, while the head of Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) floats in the sky. A spermatozoon-like creature emerges from Spencer's mouth, floating into the void.
Days of Heaven, 1h34
Directed by Terrence Malick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Stuart Margolin
Roles Sound Assistant
Rating77% 3.897433.897433.897433.897433.89743
The story is set in 1916. Bill (Gere), a Chicago manual laborer, knocks down and kills a boss (Margolin) in the steel mill where he works. He flees to the Texas Panhandle with his girlfriend Abby (Adams) and younger sister Linda (Manz),

Team

The Elephant Man, 2h4
Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Horror, Historical
Themes Circus films, Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities
Actors Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones
Roles Special Sound Effects
Rating81% 4.098944.098944.098944.098944.09894
London Hospital surgeon Frederick Treves finds John Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London's East End, where he is kept by Mr. Bytes. His head is always hooded, and his "owner," who views him as retarded, is paid by Treves to bring him to the hospital for exams. He shows Merrick to his colleagues and highlights his monstrous skull, which forces him to sleep with his head on his knees, since if he were to lie down, he would asphyxiate. On Merrick’s return he is beaten so hard by Bytes that an apprentice calls Treves to bring him back to hospital. When Bytes accuses Treves of likewise exploiting Merrick for his own ends, he vows to do what he can to help Merrick.