Phil Judd (born 1948) is an Australian sound engineer, managing director of PhilmSound Pty. Ltd., who is credited with post-production work on many well-known (mostly Australian) movies and several television series. He is not related to the New Zealand musician
Phil Judd.
History
Judd began his audio engineering career in 1964 at the broadcast studios of
2GB
2GB is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia owned by parent company Nine Radio, a division of Nine Entertainment Co., who also own sister station 2UE.
2GB broadcasts on 873 kHz, AM.
In 2010, 2GB held 14.7% of the total rad ...
in Sydney as a sound booth panel operator, then in 1967 joined
Fauna Productions who were employing production crew for the television series ''
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', for which incidentally he provided the trademark "tch-tch" voice of "Skippy".
Around 1970 he joined Artransa Film Studios, for whom he mixed his first feature film, ''
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'' (1972); another notable film of this period of his life was
Peter Weir's ''
The Last Wave
''The Last Wave'' (also released, in the US, as ''Black Rain'') is a 1977 Australian Mystery film, mystery Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Peter Weir.''Variety Film Reviews, Variety'' film review; 16 November 1977, p. 21. It ...
'', for which he won an
AFI award in 1977, after which his name was associated with a great number of Australian movies and TV mini-series.
[ His name has been associated with Peter Weir on many projects.
In 1991 he founded his own company PhilmSound with extensive facilities at ]Lindfield, New South Wales
Lindfield is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District and is in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. East Lindfi ...
.
Some movie credits
Memberships
*Audio Engineering Society
*Motion Picture Sound Editors (US)
*Australian Film Institute (Pre-selection Judge)
*Australian Screen Sound Guild Inc. (and founding president)[
]
References
External links
PhilmSound website
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1948 births
Australian audio engineers
Living people