Peter Berkos

{{Short description|American sound editor (1922–2024)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| name = Peter Berkos

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|08|15}}

| birth_place = Cicero, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|01|02|1922|08|15}}

| death_place = Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California, U.S.

| occupation = Sound editor

| yearsactive = 1938–1987

| spouse = {{marriage|Sally Berkos||15 August 2000|end=died}}

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Peter Berkos (August 15, 1922 – January 2, 2024) was an American sound editor. He received the Special Achievement Academy Award during the 1975 Academy Awards for the film The Hindenburg. This was for the Sound Editing of the film.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1976 |title=The 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners |access-date=March 17, 2014|work=oscars.org}} In 1996, he received the Lifetime Achievement award at the Motion Picture Sound Editors awards. He also did the sound effects for the original Battlestar Galactica, as well as the TV movies of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Berkos retired from editing in 1987, but reinvented himself as a novelist, with books published in 2007 and 2013.[https://blogs.colum.edu/demomagazine/2015/04/24/peter-the-great/ Peter the Great] He lived in Rancho Bernardo, California, and turned 100 on August 15, 2022.{{cite web |last1=Himchak |first1=Elizabeth Marie |title=Academy Award winner Peter Berkos of Rancho Bernardo to turn 100 |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2022-08-03/academy-award-winner-peter-berkos-of-rancho-bernardo-to-turn-100 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |date=3 August 2022 |access-date=August 15, 2022}}{{Cite tweet |user=ColumbiaChi |number=1559179100585021440 |title=Happy 100th birthday to #ColumAlum Peter Berkos '51!}}{{Cite web |date=2022-08-19 |title=San Diego County Oscar-winner celebrates his 100th birthday |url=https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/local-oscar-winner-celebrates-his-100th-birthday |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV |language=en}} Berkos died in Rancho Bernardo on January 2, 2024, at the age of 101.{{cite web |last1=Bartlett |first1=Rhett |title=Peter Berkos, Oscar-Winning Sound Effects Editor on 'The Hindenburg,' Dies at 101 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-berkos-dead-hindenburg-1235778429/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=3 January 2024 |access-date=January 3, 2024}} He was remembered as, "the Universal Pictures sound effects maestro and champion of sound editors everywhere who shared a special achievement Oscar for his work on the Robert Wise-directed disaster epic The Hindenburg."{{Cite web |last=Bartlett |first=Rhett |date=January 3, 2024 |orig-date=January 3, 2024 |title=Peter Berkos, Oscar-Winning Sound Effects Editor on 'The Hindenburg,' Dies at 101 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-berkos-dead-hindenburg-1235778429/ |access-date=November 22, 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-08-03 |title=Academy Award winner Peter Berkos of Rancho Bernardo to turn 100 |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2022/08/03/academy-award-winner-peter-berkos-of-rancho-bernardo-to-turn-100/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}}