Walter Cecil "Tex" Rudloff (August 8, 1926 – October 10, 2015) was an American

sound engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

. He was nominated for an

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in the category

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for the film ''

The Buddy Holly Story ''The Buddy Holly Story'' is a 1978 American biographical film which tells the life and career of rock and roll musician Buddy Holly. It features an Academy Award-winning musical score, adapted by Joe Renzetti and Oscar-nominated lead performan ...

''. His son,

Gregg Rudloff Gregg Rudloff (November 2, 1955 – January 6, 2019) was an American re-recording mixer. He won three Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on 150 films ...

, also worked in sound.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1978)

References

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* 1926 births 2015 deaths American audio engineers {{US-audio-engineer-stub