Walt Martin

Walt Martin

Date of Passing: July 24, 2014
Obituary: Hollywood Reporter

Walt Martin was a sound mixer for film and television who is best known for his work with Clint Eastwood. In all, Martin worked on 14 films directed by Eastwood, including the 2006 WWII drama Flags of Our Fathers, for which he shared an Oscar nomination.

Walt Martin was a sound mixer for film and television who is best known for his work with Clint Eastwood. In all, Martin worked on 14 films directed by Eastwood, including the 2006 WWII drama Flags of Our Fathers, for which he shared an Oscar nomination.

His collaboration with Eastwood began with the 1999 release True Crime and continued through Space Cowboys, Blood Work, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, Gran Torino, Invictus, Hereafter, Trouble with the Curve and Jersey Boys.

In 2014 he completed work on a final Eastwood film, the military drama American Sniper, which is scheduled for release in 2015.

Martin got his start in the early 1980s and went on to work on dozens of films, including Last Resort, The Dead, Tremors, Tombstone, Cold Around the Heart, The Banger Sisters, Charlie's Angels and Hollywoodland.

He also worked on several made-for-television movies, including The Cover Girl and the Cop, Rock Hudson, Buried Alive, Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story, Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills, The Christmas Box, The Christmas Wish and Johnny Tsunami.

His series credits included Rizzoli & Isles, Sons of Anarchy, Mad Men and more than 50 episodes of The Closer.

Martin died July 24, 2014, in Los Angeles. He was 69.

 

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