Murray Spivack

{{short description|American sound engineer}}

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| name = Murray Spivack

| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|9|6}}

| birth_place = Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|5|8|1903|9|6}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, United States

| occupation = Sound engineer

| yearsactive = 1930–1978

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Murray Spivack (September 6, 1903 – May 8, 1994) was an American sound engineer best known as the sound designer for the 1933 film King Kong. He won an Oscar for Sound Recording and was nominated for another in the same category. He was also a drum teacher whose students included Louie Bellson, Remo Belli, David Garibaldi, William Kraft, Alan Maitland, Jim Banks, Chad Wackerman and Joe Morello.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pas.org/About/the-society/halloffame/SpivachMurray.aspx |title=PAS Hall of Fame |access-date=November 15, 2015 |work=PAS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110618/http://www.pas.org/About/the-society/halloffame/SpivachMurray.aspx |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}