Walter Murch

Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor, director, writer and sound designer. With a career stretching back to 1969, including work on THX 1138, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, II, and III, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Ghost and The English Patient, with three Academy Award wins, he has been referred to by Roger Ebert as "the most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema." David Thomson, in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film, calls Murch "the scholar, gentleman and superb craftsman of modern film", adding that "in sound and editing, he is now without peer."