Don Sharpe
{{about|the Academy Award-winning sound editor|the similarly named director|Don Sharp|Canadian politician|Donald Sharpe}}
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| name = Don Sharpe
| birth_name = Roy Donald Sharpe
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Donald Sharpe
| birth_date = 4 July 1929
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|11|13|1929|7|4}}
| death_place = Hillingdon, Middlesex, England
| occupation = Sound editor
| yearsactive = 1947–1997
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Don Sharpe (4 July 1929 – 13 November 2004) was a sound editor. He won for the film Aliens for Best Sound Editing at the 1986 Academy Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1987 |title=The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners |access-date=March 18, 2014|work=oscars.org}}
He had over 90 editing credits over his 50-year career.
He also won the BAFTA Award for sound for the film The French Lieutenant's Woman.
Selected filmography
- Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
- Year of the Comet (1992)
- Batman (1989)
- Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
- Aliens (1986)
- Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
- Superman III (1983)
- An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
- Superman II (1980)
- Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
- Robin and Marian (1976)
- The Land that Time Forgot (1975)
- The Three Musketeers (1973)
- Sleuth (1972)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0789216|name=Don Sharpe}}
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Category:Best Sound BAFTA Award winners
Category:Best Sound Editing Academy Award winners
Category:British sound editors
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