Charles L. Lootens

Charles Louis Lootens (* May 14, 1900, † 10 May 1994, Denver, Colorado) was an American sound engineer and film technology pioneer who was nominated four times for an Academy Award for Best Sound as well as the Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award ) was awarded.

Life

Lootens began his career as a sound engineer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1937 with the film Dick Tracy and worked until 1942 with the production of 26 films, though he was not mentioned by name in the rule uncredited ( " uncredited ").

At the Academy Awards in 1939 Lootens was first nominated for an Oscar for best sound, and indeed for the Western Army Girl (1938 ) by George Nichols Jr. with Madge Evans, Preston Foster and James Gleason in the lead roles.

The next Oscar nomination for the best sound he received in 1940 for the biopic revenge for the Alamo ( Man of Conquest, 1939), filmed in the co- George Nichols Jr. with Richard Dix life of Sam Houston. Also starring Edward Ellis and Gail Patrick were seen.

At the Academy Awards in 1941 he was again nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Sound, this time for the Drama Behind the News ( 1940) by Joseph Santley with the main actors Lloyd Nolan, Doris Davenport and Frank Albertson.

At the Academy Awards in 1942 Lootens, who worked for the studio section of the film production company Republic Pictures was " called for basic use, and for the first practical application of a so-called Class B variable area recording device in the film production" ( "For pioneering the use of and for the first practical application to motion picture production of Class B push-pull variable area recording " ) won an Oscar for technical merit ( technical Achievement Award). At the same time he was nominated for the criminal and war movie The Devil Pays Off ( 1941) by John H. Auer with J. Edward Bromberg, Osa masses and William Wright for the fourth and final time for the Oscar for best sound.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

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