Walter Murch
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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.
Known for
Credits
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004)
as Self
Side by Side (2012)
as Self
78/52 (2017)
as Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
as Self
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
as Self
Fog City Mavericks (2007)
as Self
Coup 53 (2019)
as Self - Film Editor
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)
as Self
George Lucas: Creating an Empire (2005)
as Self
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
as Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
as Self - Film and Sound Editor
The Making of 'American Graffiti' (1998)
as Self
The Emperor (1967)
as Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008)
as Self
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' (2004)
as Self
Remembering Return to Oz (2021)
as Self
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' (1971)
as Self
The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped (2008)
as Self
Vivien’s Wild Ride (2025)
as Himself
Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' (2006)
as Self
Sight & Sound: The Cinema of Walter Murch (2020)
as Himself
Don't Expect Too Much (2011)
as Himself
The Cinema Within (2024)
Actor
Her Name Was Moviola (2024)
as Self
Murch: Walter Murch on Editing (2007)
as Himself
Master Sessions with Walter Murch (—)
as Self