Treg Brown
Tregoweth " Treg " Edmond Brown ( * November 4, 1899 in Gilbert, Minnesota, † April 28, 1984 in Irvine, California ) was an American editor and sound engineer, who was a pioneer in the field of sound effects, and the 1966 Academy Award for the best sound effects won.
Life
Treg Brown began his career as an editor and sound engineer in 1932 and worked in the following decades in the production of over 1000 mostly animated short films. Particularly well known he was through his work with animation directors such as Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng and his sound effects for cartoons of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester and Tweety, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
Brown, who was also called " Docteur " because of his extraordinary talents, was a master in the production of countless sound effects with the help of common objects: He could, for example, crumple newspapers so that it sounded like any kind of fire. However, his sounds were so professional and realistic that these sound effects are still used today.
He campaigned for other colleagues and reached among others, Leon Schlesinger, the film producers from Warner Bros. that this 1937 Mel Blanc, a former radio announcer, as the "voice " committed: Blanc soon became a sought-after speaker for numerous characters of the Looney Tunes like Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. With his natural voice Blanc also spoke to Sylvester, who wants to catch the little Tweety Bird again and again. The rabbit Bugs Bunny but was his most famous character.
In the cartoon One Froggy Evening, the Chuck Jones directed 1955, Brown will set a zeichentrickfilmisches Monument: The skyscraper where the main cartoon character of the film, Michigan J. Frog, is buried, bearing the name " Tregoweth Brown Building".
At the Academy Awards in 1966 he won the Oscar for best sound effects in The Great Race around the world ( 1965) by Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood.