Ray West

{{Short description|American sound engineer}}

{{use mdy dates|date=January 2015}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Ray West

| birth_name = George Raymond West

| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|11|29}}

| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|2|17|1925|11|29}}

| death_place = Santa Barbara, California, U.S.

| occupation = Sound engineer

| yearsactive = 1977–1993

}}

George Raymond West (November 29, 1925 – February 17, 2016) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1978 |title=The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-05|work=oscars.org}} He worked on over 60 films between 1977 and 1993.

West has also done extensive work in television. He was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards and, in 1978, won an award for sound mixing for the NBC television film The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978), starring Michael Moriarty, and, in 1986, for Unnatural Causes, starring John Ritter.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/ray-west-dead-died-won-oscar-for-star-wars-sound-mixing-1201721179/ |title=Ray West, Oscar-Winning 'Star Wars' Sound Mixer, Dies at 90 |work=Variety |date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=October 12, 2020}}

West died in February 2016 at the age of 90.