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Tom Overton is a Actor and Sound Mixer American born on 14 april 1930
Tom Overton is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film A Star Is Born.
(1978)
(Sound Mixer)
(1980)
(Sound Mixer)
(1975)
(Production Sound Mixer)
(1971)
(Sound Mixer)
(1959)
(Boom Operator)
(1969)
(Sound Designer)
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Tom Overton is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film A Star Is Born.
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(1978)(Sound Mixer)
(1980)(Sound Mixer)
(1975)(Production Sound Mixer)
(1971)(Sound Mixer)
(1959)(Boom Operator)
(1969)(Sound Designer)
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The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
, 1h43Directed by Bob Rafelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, John P. Ryan, Scatman Crothers, Sully Boyar
Roles Spot Operator
Rating64%
David (Jack Nicholson) and Jason (Bruce Dern) are estranged siblings, the former a depressive late-night radio talk show host, the latter an extrovert con man. When Jason drags his younger brother and his own bitter aging beauty-queen squeeze, Sally (Ellen Burstyn), to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate scam, events spiral toward tragedy.
Sound
Deadly Messages (1985)
, 1h30Directed by Jack Bender
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Kathleen Beller, Michael Brandon, Dennis Franz, Scott Paulin, George Wyner, Raye Birk
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating59%
After Laura Daniels (Kathleen Beller) - who workes at a dating consulting firm - leaves to go out on a date with lawyer Michael Krasnick (Michael Brandon), her roommate Cindy Matthews (Sherri Stoner) uses Laura's newly found Ouija board and gets in touch with 21-year-old David, who claims to have been murdered in the New York apartment in 1978. The same evening, Laura arrives home, witnessing a mysterious man strangling Cindy to death. As soon as the police arrive, Cindy's body and all traces of any crime are missing, causing the police to feel pranked; filing her for violation. Matthew believes Laura, though thinks that Cindy is pranking with her; assuring Laura that Cindy has a past of suddenly disappearing for a long period of time. Laura does not feel extremely save though, and purchases an alarm for protection in a mall, in which she gets eventually chased by Cindy's murderer.
Airplane! (1980)
, 1h25Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating76%
Ex-fighter pilot and taxi driver Ted Striker (Robert Hays) became traumatized during an unnamed war, leading to a pathological fear of flying. As a result, he is unable to hold a responsible job. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty), now a flight attendant, leaves him. Striker nervously boards a Boeing 707 (Trans American Flight 209) from Los Angeles to Chicago on which she is serving, hoping to win her back, but she rebuffs him.
, 2h6Directed by Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Robert Wise, Stephen Collins, Gene Roddenberry, Persis Khambatta
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating64%
In 2273, a Starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon Nine, detects an alien force, hidden in a massive cloud of energy, moving through space towards Earth. The cloud destroys three of the Klingon Empire's new K't'inga-class warships and the monitoring station en route. On Earth, the starship Enterprise is undergoing a major refit; her former commanding officer, James T. Kirk, has been promoted to Admiral and works in San Francisco as Chief of Starfleet Operations. Starfleet dispatches Enterprise to investigate the cloud entity as the ship is the only one in intercept range, requiring her new systems to be tested in transit.
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
, 1h37Directed by Warren Beatty, Craig R. Baxley, Buck Henry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, American football films, Ghost films, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating68%
Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty), a backup quarterback for the American football team Los Angeles Rams, is looking forward to leading his team to the Super Bowl. While riding his bicycle through the Mulholland Drive tunnel under Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles, he collides with a truck. An over-anxious guardian angel (Buck Henry) on his first assignment plucks Joe out of his body early, in the mistaken belief that his death is imminent, and Pendleton arrives in the afterlife.
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Dick Richards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating69%
Set in Los Angeles in 1941, against a seamy backdrop of police corruption, cheap hotel rooms, illegal gambling and jewel trafficking, private detective Philip Marlowe is holed up in a hotel room and growing more weary by the hour. As he explains to his police lieutenant friend Nulty: "I've got a hat, a coat and a gun, that's it."
The Day of the Locust (1975)
, 2h24Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about films
Actors William Atherton, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Lelia Goldoni
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating68%
A cynical and gothic look at Hollywood during the late 1930s, The Day of the Locust tells the tales of residents of the dilapidated San Bernardino Arms: Faye Greener, a trashy aspiring actress with limited talent, and her father Harry, a washed-up vaudevillian reduced to working as a door-to-door salesman; sexually repressed accountant Homer Simpson, who desperately loves Faye, and East Coast WASP Tod Hackett, an aspiring artist employed by the production department of a major studio, who also fancies Faye.
Shampoo (1975)
, 1h49Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Political films
Actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill
Roles Production Sound Mixer
Rating63%
Shampoo is set during a 24-hour period in 1968, on the eve of a presidential election that would result in Richard Nixon's election to the American presidency. George Roundy is a successful Beverly Hills hairdresser, whose occupation and charisma have provided him the perfect platform from which to meet and have sex with beautiful women, including his current girlfriend Jill.
Posse (1975)
, 1h32Directed by Kirk Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Luke Askew, David Canary
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating64%
Howard Nightingale (Kirk Douglas), a U.S. marshal, leads an elite uniformed posse to track down and capture the infamous bank robber Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern), in an effort to further his political career when running for United States Senator. Strawhorn disrupts his plans when he kidnaps Nightingale. He demands a ransom of $40,000 from the posse for Nightingale's safe return—the same amount of money that the posse burned when tracking Strawhorn down and killing his gang. In order to raise the money, Nightingale's posse have to rob the town, thus turning the public against Nightingale.
The Parallax View (1974)
, 1h42Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Jim Davis, Earl Hindman
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating70%
TV newswoman Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) is one of many witnesses to the public assassination of presidential candidate Senator Charles Carroll (Bill Joyce) atop the Seattle Space Needle. A waiter armed with a revolver is chased but falls to his death. Meanwhile, a second waiter, also armed, leaves the crime scene unnoticed. A Congressional special committee determines that the assassination was the work of a lone gunman.
Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)
Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Max Julien, Glynn Turman, Juanita Moore, George Murdock, Vonetta McGee, Jason Bernard
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating59%
Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine and Max Julien plays Bushrod in a film intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
, 1h41Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty, Charles Cioffi
Roles Sound
Rating61%
Webster McGee (Ryan O'Neal) is a computer programmer who abruptly quits his job and adopts a life of crime as a jewel thief in Houston, Texas.
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
, 1h43Directed by Bob Rafelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, John P. Ryan, Scatman Crothers, Sully Boyar
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating64%
David (Jack Nicholson) and Jason (Bruce Dern) are estranged siblings, the former a depressive late-night radio talk show host, the latter an extrovert con man. When Jason drags his younger brother and his own bitter aging beauty-queen squeeze, Sally (Ellen Burstyn), to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate scam, events spiral toward tragedy.
Sounder (1972)
, 1h45Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, James Best, Janet MacLachlan
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating74%
The Morgans (Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks), a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933 right in the middle of the Great Depression, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays for a while with a dedicated black schoolteacher.
The Last Picture Show (1971)
, 1h58Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Basketball films
Actors Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd
Roles Sound Mixer
Rating79%
In 1951, Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) are high-school seniors and friends in a small, declining Texas town. Duane is dating Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), the prettiest (and wealthiest) girl in town. Sonny decides to break up with girlfriend Charlene Duggs (Sharon Ullrick).