Robert O. Cook
Robert Oscar Cook ( born September 27, 1903 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, † November 9, 1995 in Pasadena, California ) was an American engineer who was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Sound and 1947 with the Oscar for technical merits ( Technical Achievement Award) was awarded.
Life
Slyfield began his career as a sound engineer in the film industry in Hollywood in the studio division of The Walt Disney Company and worked for the first time in 1946 during the production of staged by Bob Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Joe Grant, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske and Joshua Meador Music Cartoons Make Mine Music with.
At the Academy Awards in 1947 Cook was awarded jointly with Arthur F. Blinn and CO Slyfield, who were also active in the recording studio division of The Walt Disney Company, the Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award), and that "for the design and development for a Tonfinder and trace classifiers for verification and localization of sounds on tracks " (, for the design and development of an audio track finder and viewer for checking and locating noise in sound tracks ').
1962 Cook was first nominated for the Oscar for best sound, and indeed for the comedy film The Parent Trap announce ( The Parent Trap, 1961) by David Swift with Hayley Mills in a double role, and Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara in other roles. At the Academy Awards in 1963, he worked for the James Neilson with Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman and Deborah Walley staged comedy champagne in Paris ( Bon Voyage! , 1962) once again nominated for the Oscar for best sound.
His third and final nomination for the Oscar for best sound got Cook in 1965 for the musical - fantasy film Mary Poppins ( 1964) by Robert Stevenson starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke and David Tomlinson.
Cook worked until 1977 in the production of almost 100 films and television series with.