Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
David Hildyard is a Sound and Sound Recordist British born on 1 may 1916 at London (United-kingdom)

David Hildyard

David Hildyard
If you like this person, let us know!
Birth name David Sidney Hildyard
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 may 1916 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 19 february 2008 (at 91 years)

David Hildyard (1916 – 19 February 2008) was an English sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.

Best films

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
(Sound Mixer)
Raw Deal (1986)
(Sound Mixer)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
(Sound)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
(Sound Mixer)

Usually with

Irving Allen
Irving Allen
(2 films)
Harold Huth
Harold Huth
(2 films)
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
(2 films)
Ronald Fraser
Ronald Fraser
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of David Hildyard (25 films)

Display filmography as list

Sound

A Summer Story, 1h35
Directed by Piers Haggard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, Susannah York, Kenneth Colley, Jerome Flynn, Sophie Ward
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating72% 3.637073.637073.637073.637073.63707
In the summer of 1902 Frank Ashton, an educated young man from London, is on a walking holiday in Devon with a friend. When he falls and twists his ankle, Ashton is helped at a nearby farmhouse and stays there for a few days to recover, while his friend goes on. Ashton quickly falls for the village girl who looks after him, Megan David, and she falls in love with him, to the great distress of her cousin Joe Narracombe, who wants her for himself. Ashton and Megan spend a night together, and after that he takes the train to a seaside town to cash a cheque at a bank, promising to return the next morning and take Megan away with him and marry her.
Without a Clue, 1h47
Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Nigel Davenport
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating68% 3.446433.446433.446433.446433.44643
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Dr. John Watson (Ben Kingsley) as the central character in a series of short stories published in Strand Magazine. Watson uses the character to enable him to solve crimes incognito, so as not to disrupt his career as a doctor during a period when he was applying for a post at an exclusive hospital, one in which the senior staff would frown on Watson's "hobby". Although he does not secure the job, Watson decides to satisfy public demand to see Holmes in person by hiring unemployed actor Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine) to play the part of the fictional detective.
Raw Deal
Raw Deal (1986)
, 1h46
Directed by John Irvin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Darren McGavin, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Steven Hill
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating56% 2.8020552.8020552.8020552.8020552.802055
On December 16, 1985, in a remote wooded cabin, a mob informant is under protection by the FBI. They are ambushed by a hit squad who brutally slaughter the bodyguards and the witness. One of the agents killed is Blair Shannon, son of FBI Chief Harry Shannon (Darren McGavin), who vows revenge.
Turtle Diary, 1h37
Directed by John Irvin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Horror, Romance
Actors Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson, Michael Gambon, Jeroen Krabbé, Rosemary Leach
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating68% 3.441763.441763.441763.441763.44176
Two lonely Londoners - Neaera Duncan, a children's author (Glenda Jackson), and William Snow, a bookstore assistant (Ben Kingsley) - find common ground when visiting the sea turtles at London Zoo; independently of each other, both perceive that the turtles are unnaturally confined, and they hatch a plan with the assistance of zookeeper George Fairbairn (Michael Gambon) to smuggle them out and release them into the sea, which they ultimately succeed in accomplishing. Their release of the turtles represents metaphorically their release of themselves from their own inhibitions.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, 1h45
Directed by Lewis John Carlino
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Sarah Miles, Jonathan Kahn
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating62% 3.1023753.1023753.1023753.1023753.102375
Jonathan Osborne, the 14-year-old son of widow Anne Osborne, has become involved with a group of boys led by a neo-Nietzschean sadistic boy named "Chief." Anne daydreams about her husband who died three years earlier. When a large merchant ship anchors temporarily in the harbour, Anne arranges to give her son a tour of the vessel. They meet the second officer of the ship, Jim Cameron. Jim takes a liking to both the boy and his mother. Jim and Anne become involved romantically which turns Jonathan into a rage of jealousy. Cameron returns to sea and while he is gone, Jonathan reveals his jealous sentiment to the group leader, Chief. When Cameron comes back to renew his relationship with Anne and forsake his life on the sea, Chief and the boys concoct a sinister plot to do away with the intruder.
Fiddler on the Roof, 2h52
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Théâtre, Musical films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Paul Michael Glaser
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating79% 3.9978753.9978753.9978753.9978753.997875
In 1905, Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman living in the Russian village of Anatevka, explains to the audience what keeps the Jews of Anatevka going is the balance they achieve through following their ancient traditions, comparing their precarious circumstance to a fiddler on a roof: trying to scratch out a pleasant tune, while not breaking their necks. The fiddler appears throughout the film as a metaphoric reminder of the Jews' ever-present fears and danger, and also as a symbol of the traditions Tevye is trying to hold on to as his world changes around him. While in town, Tevye meets Perchik, a radical Marxist from Kiev. Tevye invites Perchik to stay with him and his family, and as a deal, offers him food, in exchange for Perchik tutoring his daughters.
The Secret of Santa Vittoria, 2h19
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Musical films, Political films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger, Sergio Franchi, Renato Rascel
Roles Sound
Rating72% 3.6447853.6447853.6447853.6447853.644785
During World War II in the summer of 1943, in the aftermath of the fall of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini, the German army uses the ensuing political vacuum to occupy most of the peninsula of Italy.
Hornets' Nest, 1h50
Directed by Phil Karlson
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Jacques Sernas, Jean Valmont
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating57% 2.852132.852132.852132.852132.85213
In Northern Italy in 1944, the entire population of the village of Reanoto is massacred by the SS under the command of the cruel Sturmbannführer Taussig (Jacques Sernas) for helping the Italian resistance movement. The only survivors are a group of young boys in ages from 7 to 14 led by Aldo (Mark Colleano, son of Bonar Colleano and Susan Shaw) who witness the mass execution and vow revenge.
The Appointment, 1h55
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée, Didi Perego, Fausto Tozzi, Lotte Lenya, Paola Barbara
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating53% 2.657282.657282.657282.657282.65728
Federico, un jeune avocat riche à Rome, rencontre un ancien ami de collège Renzo et sa fiancée Carla, un modèle de mode. Renzo lui dit qu'il n'est plus content avec Carla, car il soupçonne qu'elle travaille aussi comme prostituée. Federico se sent attiré par la beauté et la réserve de Carla et enfin il l'épouse. Puis Renzo ranime dans l'esprit de Federico le soupçon qu'elle rencontre des hommes pendant la journée et lui propose qu'il approche l'entremetteuse Emma. Celle-ci lui demande cent mille lire pour un rendez-vous, prix que Federico accepte, mais deux fois la belle anonyme n'arrive pas. La jalousie obsessionnelle de Federico a conduit Carla, fragile et fidèle, à se suicider.
The Red Tent, 2h1
Directed by Mikhaïl Kalatozov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Peter Finch, Nikita Mikhalkov, Yuri Vizbor, Donatas Banionis
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating68% 3.4389953.4389953.4389953.4389953.438995
The film begins in Rome many years after the expedition. Nobile has endured years of scorn for his actions during the disaster and its aftermath. He imagines his apartment turned into a court of inquiry against him, where witnesses and judges are his former crewmen – including Captain Zappi, his navigator and his meteorologist Finn Malmgren. Also arrayed against him are Valeria, Malmgren's lover, Captain Romagna, one of the expedition's would-be recuers, famed aviator Lundborg, professor Samoilovich, chief of the Soviet rescue mission, his pilot Boris Chukhnovski, and Roald Amundsen who lost his life in the search for survivors of Nobile's expedition.
Barbarella
Barbarella (1968)
, 1h38
Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about religion, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Films about angels, Space opera
Actors Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, Claude Dauphin
Roles Sound Engineer
Rating58% 2.9018152.9018152.9018152.9018152.901815
In an unspecified future, Barbarella is assigned by the President of Earth to retrieve Doctor Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti region. Durand Durand is the inventor of the Positronic Ray, a weapon that Earth leaders fear will fall into the wrong hands. Barbarella crashes on the 16th planet of Tau Ceti and is soon knocked unconscious by two mysterious girls, who take Barbarella to the wreckage of a spaceship. Inside the wreckage, she is tied up and several children emerge from within the ship. They set out several dolls which have razor sharp teeth. As the dolls begin to bite her, Barbarella faints but is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman, who patrols the ice looking for errant children. While Hand takes her back to her ship, Barbarella offers to reward Mark and he suggests sex. She says that people on Earth no longer have penetrative intercourse but consume exaltation transference pills and press their palms together when their "psychocardiograms are in perfect harmony". Hand prefers the bed, and Barbarella agrees. Hand's vessel makes long loops around Barbarella's crashed vessel while the two have sex, and when it finally comes to a stop, Barbarella is blissfully humming. After Hand repairs her ship, Barbarella departs and promises to return, agreeing that doing things the old-fashioned way is occasionally best.
Doctor Faustus, 1h33
Directed by Richard Burton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Durden, Ian Marter, Maria Aitken
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating54% 2.7034952.7034952.7034952.7034952.703495
University of Wittenberg scholar Faustus earns his doctorate, but his insatiable craving for knowledge and power leads Faustus to try his hand at necromancy in an attempt to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. Faustus bargains his soul to Lucifer in exchange for 24 living years where Mephistopheles is his slave. Signing the pact in his own blood, Mephistopheles proceeds to reveal to Faustus the works and doings of the Devil.
The Taming of the Shrew, 2h2
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Natasha Pyne, Michael Hordern, Alfred Lynch, Cyril Cusack
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating70% 3.5473753.5473753.5473753.5473753.547375
À Padoue, le signore Baptista désespère de trouver un mari qui puisse résister au caractère colérique de sa fille aînée Catharina. Car d'autre part il se refuse à chercher un mari pour sa fille cadette Bianca avant d'avoir trouvé un mari pour la première des deux sœurs. L'un des soupirants de Bianca, Hortensio, reçoit bientôt la visite de Petruccio, un marchand ruiné originaire de Vérone qui lui confie qu'il est venu à Padoue chercher richesse et femme. Hortensio lui met alors dans la tête de conquérir le cœur de Catharina, ce qui lui donnerait l'occasion de mettre la main sur une dot de 20 000 couronnes d'or.
The Honey Pot, 2h6
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine, Edie Adams, Maggie Smith
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating67% 3.3962153.3962153.3962153.3962153.396215
Struggling actor William McFly (Cliff Robertson) is hired by wealthy Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) to play his personal secretary for a practical joke. Pretending to be on his deathbed, Fox invites three former lovers to his Venetian palazzo for a final visit: penniless Princess Dominique (Capucine), fading movie star Merle McGill (Edie Adams), and Texas millionairess Mrs. Lone Star Crockett Sheridan (Susan Hayward). Accompanying Mrs. Sheridan is her spinster nurse, Sarah Watkins (Maggie Smith). By chance, each of the women brings Fox a timepiece as a present.