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Richard Portman is a Sound Re-Recording Mixer American born on 2 april 1934 at Los Angeles (USA)

Richard Portman

Richard Portman
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Nationality USA
Birth 2 april 1934 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 28 january 2017 (at 82 years)

Richard Portman (born 2 April 1934) is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category. He has worked on over 160 films between 1963 and 2004.

Biography

Richard Portman est un ingénieur du son comme son père Clem Portman . Il fait son apprentissage à la fin des années 1950 aux studios Goldwyn sous la direction de Gordon E. Sawyer. Il y reste plusieurs années en gravissant les échelons.

À la fin des années 1970, il rejoint Robert Altman chez Lions Gate Film, puis au début des années 1980 est engagé par Walt Disney Productions, puis de 1989 à 1994 par Todd-AO.

Il enseigna au College of Motion Picture Arts de l'université d'État de Floride.

Best films

Star Wars (1977)
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
The Godfather (1972)
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
Wolf (1994)
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
On Golden Pond (1982)
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)

Usually with

Robert Altman
Robert Altman
(10 films)
Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph
(7 films)
Lynn Stalmaster
Lynn Stalmaster
(10 films)
James E. Webb
James E. Webb
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Richard Portman (74 films)

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Sound

Dolores Claiborne, 2h12
Directed by Taylor Hackford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, Films about domestic violence, Films about school violence, Harcèlement au travail
Actors Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, Judy Parfitt, Eric Bogosian
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating73% 3.6986053.6986053.6986053.6986053.698605
Dolores Claiborne (Bates) works as a domestic servant on a Maine island. The film opens with Dolores having a struggle with her elderly, paralyzed employer Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) in her mansion, after which Vera falls down the staircase. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as she stands over Vera with a rolling pin, apparently intending to kill her. Vera dies and the police begin a murder investigation.
Wolf
Wolf (1994)
, 2h5
Directed by Mike Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating62% 3.148573.148573.148573.148573.14857
Will Randall is bitten by a wolf while driving home in Vermont. Afterwards, he is demoted from editor-in-chief of a publishing house when it is taken over by tycoon Raymond Alden, who replaces him with Will's protégé Stewart Swinton. When Will thinks that his wife Charlotte is having an affair with Stewart, he rushes over to his house where Stewart sees Will angry and asks him what the problem is. Will bites Stewart and rushes upstairs to the room to find Charlotte half-naked. His worst fears are confirmed. Will becomes more aggressive, taking on the characteristics of a wolf.
The Pelican Brief, 2h21
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, Hume Cronyn, Stanley Tucci, John Heard
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating65% 3.2999453.2999453.2999453.2999453.299945
Two Supreme Court justices are assassinated by the professional assassin "Sam" Khamel (Stanley Tucci).
Guilty as Sin, 1h47
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang, Jack Warden, Luis Guzmán, Dana Ivey
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating57% 2.850612.850612.850612.850612.85061
Jennifer Haines (Rebecca De Mornay) is an up-and-coming Chicago attorney. She wins a big case, celebrates with the man in her life, Phil Garson (Stephen Lang), and returns to work to a hero's reception.
Fatal Instinct, 1h31
Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, Christopher McDonald, Tony Randall
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating56% 2.84872.84872.84872.84872.8487
Ned Ravine, who's both a police officer and a lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he'll throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, he encounters a seductive woman named Lola Cain; the next day, Lola shows up at his law office, saying that she needs him to look over some papers she's come across. Meanwhile, Max Shady, who was just released from prison after seven years, starts stalking Ned, planning to kill him for failing to successfully defend Max in court.
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, 1h50
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Julianne Moore, Madeline Zima
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating67% 3.3511753.3511753.3511753.3511753.351175
Claire Bartel is pregnant with her second child. At a routine checkup she is sexually molested by her new obstetrician, Dr. Victor Mott. Traumatized, she tells her husband, Michael, who encourages her to report him to the police. More women come forward with similar complaints, and multiple charges are prepared against Dr. Mott, who shoots himself. Later, Dr. Mott's pregnant widow is told by her lawyers that her husband's assets have been frozen because of the lawsuits and that she will lose her luxurious home. Mrs. Mott goes into early labor, loses her baby and, after hemorrhaging, is given an emergency hysterectomy. While recovering in the hospital, she sees a news story featuring Claire as the woman who alerted the police, leading Mrs. Mott to swear vengeance.
Article 99
Article 99 (1992)
, 1h40
Directed by Howard Deutch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, John Mahoney, John C. McGinley
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating60% 3.0499353.0499353.0499353.0499353.049935
When Dr. Peter Morgan (Kiefer Sutherland) begins his medical internship at a Veteran's Administration hospital, he expects to breeze through on his way to a cushy practice. Instead, he's thrust into a bizarre bureaucratic maze where the health of patients is secondary to politics. And the temperature really rises when he teams up with some freewheeling physicians, led by Dr. Richard Sturgess (Ray Liotta), who think they've learned how to break the rules-and save lives-without getting caught.
Doc Hollywood, 1h44
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson, Barnard Hughes, David Ogden Stiers, Bridget Fonda
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating63% 3.150643.150643.150643.150643.15064
Dr. Benjamin Stone is a promising young surgeon working in Washington, D.C. with plans of making more money working for a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. On his last day, he realizes that none of his colleagues care enough about him to say good-bye to him, instead leaving him a cake with an insult made out of icing.
L.A. Story
L.A. Story (1991)
, 1h35
Directed by Mick Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker, Steve Martin, Sam McMurray
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating66% 3.348763.348763.348763.348763.34876
Harris K. Telemacher (Steve Martin) is a TV meteorologist living in Los Angeles. He is in a dead-end relationship with his social-climbing girlfriend Trudi (Marilu Henner), and wants to find some meaning and magic in his life and also finds himself growing increasingly weary of what he sees as the rather shallow and superficial city of LA.
Cast a Deadly Spell, 1h36
Directed by Martin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films based on works by H. P. Lovecraft, Giant monster films, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, Clancy Brown, David Warner, Charles Hallahan, Lee Tergesen
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating63% 3.1957753.1957753.1957753.1957753.195775
Ward stars as 1948 hardboiled private detective H. Philip Lovecraft, in a fictional universe where magic is real, monsters and mythical beasts stalk the back alleys, zombies are used as cheap labor, and everyone—except Lovecraft—uses magic every day. Yet, cars, telephones and other modern technology also exist in this world.
Dark Angel
Dark Angel (1990)
, 1h31
Directed by Craig R. Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Road movies, Chase films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley, Matthias Hues, David Ackroyd, Michael J. Pollard
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating60% 3.0490253.0490253.0490253.0490253.049025
Houston cop Jack Caine won't let police procedure prevent him pursuing his mission to wipe out the White Boys, a gang of white collar drug dealers who killed his partner while Caine was stopping a convenience store robbery.
Presumed Innocent, 2h7
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield, Greta Scacchi
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating68% 3.4490153.4490153.4490153.4490153.449015
Rozat "Rusty" Sabich (Ford) is a prosecutor and the right-hand man of District Attorney Raymond Horgan (Dennehy). When his colleague, Carolyn Polhemus (Scacchi), is found raped and murdered in her apartment, Raymond insists that Rusty take charge of the investigation. The election for District Attorney is approaching and Tommy Molto (Joe Grifasi), the acting head of the homicide division, has left to join the rival campaign of Nico Della Guardia (Tom Mardirosian).
Night Game
Night Game (1989)
, 1h35
Directed by Peter Masterson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Roy Scheider, Lane Smith, Karen Young, Richard Bradford, Paul Gleason, Carlin Glynn
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating50% 2.5021652.5021652.5021652.5021652.502165
A number of young women are found dead on or around the beaches of Galveston and the one thing they all have in common is that they were murdered when Houston Astros ace pitcher Silvio Baretto (an amalgamation of real-life pitchers Bob Knepper and Juan Agosto) pitches and wins a night game at the Astrodome. Additionally, each victim had her throat slashed by some sort of knife or hook.
Ghosts Can't Do It, 1h30
Directed by John Derek
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Ghost films
Actors Bo Derek, Anthony Quinn, Julie Newmar, Don Murray, Victoria Burgoyne, Henry Jayasena
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating21% 1.064361.064361.064361.064361.06436
Scott and Kate are happily married despite their 30-year age difference. After Scott suffers a heart attack and is unable to make love, he commits suicide and becomes a ghost that only Kate can see and speak with. To make it possible for Scott to return as a human, they conjure up a plan to have a young man drown so that Scott can take his body.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 1h43
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité, Buddy films
Actors Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Lauren Tom, Alan North
Roles Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rating67% 3.399113.399113.399113.399113.39911
A blind man named Wally Karew (Richard Pryor) and a deaf man named Dave Lyons (Gene Wilder) meet when Wally applies for a job in Dave's New York City concession shop.