Loren L. Ryder (March 9, 1900 – May 28, 1985) was an American
sound engineer. He won five
Academy Awards
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and was nominated for twelve more in the categories
Best Sound Recording and
Best Effects.
After serving in
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, Ryder studied physics and mathematics at the
University of California, Berkeley
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, graduating in 1924.
[ He went to work at Pacific Telephone & Telegraph where he developed an improved technique for transmitting images over telephone lines, using ]light valve A light valve (LV) is a device for varying the quantity of light, from a source, which reaches a target. Examples of targets are computer screen surfaces, or a wall screen in the case of a light projector.
There are two basic principles of achievin ...
s.[ In 1928, Ryder joined ]Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...
where he worked in the emerging field of talking picture
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decad ...
s.[ From and 1936 until 1957 he served as the studio's chief engineer and sound director.][ Ryder was part of the production team who received an ]Academy Honorary Award
The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1950 for the 23rd Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Moti ...
at the 11th Academy Awards
The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without an official host.
Frank Capra became the first person to win three Best Director awards, t ...
for their efforts on the Paramount film '' Spawn of the North''.World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, General George S. Patton
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called upon Ryder's audio expertise to help disguise the sounds of American tanks at the Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive (military), offensive military campaign, campaign on the Western Front (World War II), Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted fr ...
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Selected filmography
;Best Sound nominee
* ''Wells Fargo
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'' (1937)The Great Victor Herbert
''The Great Victor Herbert'' is a 1939 American musical film directed by Andrew L. Stone. During production, the movie was slated to be called ''The Gay Days of Victor Herbert.''
Plot
Cast
* Allan Jones as John Ramsey
* Mary Martin as Louis ...
'' (1939)Road to Morocco
''Road to Morocco'' is a 1942 American comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, and featuring Anthony Quinn and Dona Drake. The film, which was written by Frank Butler and Don Hartman and directed by David Butler for Para ...
'' (1942)Melody Inn
''Riding High'' (also known as ''Melody Inn'') is a 1943 American comedy film starring Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell, made in Technicolor, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Sound Recording (Loren L. ...
'' (1943)Double Indemnity
''Double Indemnity'' is a 1944 American crime film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novel of the same ...
'' (1944)The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew עשרת הדברים \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, ''aséret ha-dvarím'', lit. The Decalogue, The Ten Words, cf. Mishnaic Hebrew עשרת הדיברות \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְ ...
'' (1956)Typhoon
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'' (1940)
References
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1900 births
1985 deaths
Academy Honorary Award recipients
American audio engineers
Special effects people
Engineers from California
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
Recipients of the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation
20th-century American engineers
Recipients of the Scientific and Technical Academy Award of Merit
Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners