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- Birth nameDaniel Guy Wallin
- Dan Wallin was born on March 13, 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for Super 8 (2011), Star Trek (2009) and Howard the Duck (1986). He died on April 10, 2024 in Hawaii, USA.
- Dan Wallin was an American sound engineer. He even recorded the gunshots for Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, including "The Wild Bunch" and "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.".
- He contributed on 17 films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Nashville (1975), Taxi Driver (1976), All the President's Men (1976), Bound for Glory (1976), An Unmarried Woman (1978), Ordinary People (1980), The Right Stuff (1983), Terms of Endearment (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), The Accidental Tourist (1988), The Fugitive (1993), The Insider (1999) and Up (2009). Of those, Ordinary People (1980), Terms of Endearment (1983) and Out of Africa (1985) are winners in the category.
- It was his skill behind the console, recording and mixing musical scores for movies and TV, that won him legions of fans among nearly all of Hollywood's top composers and ensured steady employment for more than half a century.
- He had worked on more than 500 films since 1965, working into his eighties.
- After the war, he worked in live radio, handling big-band remotes from popular L.A. venues for CBS, and then moved to television, working at KTLA in the 1950s.
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