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American sound engineer
Louis Mesenkop |
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Born | Louis Henry Mesenkop (1903-02-06)February 6, 1903
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Died | February 19, 1974(1974-02-19) (aged 71)
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Occupation | Sound engineer |
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Years active | 1935-1956 |
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Louis Mesenkop (February 6, 1903 – February 19, 1974) was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Special Effects and was nominated for another in the same category. Mesenkop was part of the production team who received an Academy Honorary Award at the 11th Academy Awards for their efforts on the Paramount film Spawn of the North.[1]
Selected filmography
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Mesenkop won two Academy Awards for Best Special Effects and was nominated for another:
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- Nominated
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1928–1950 |
- Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
- Walt Disney (1932)
- Shirley Temple (1934)
- D. W. Griffith (1935)
- The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
- Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
- J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
- Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel) / Technicolor SA (1939)
- Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
- Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
- Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
- George Pal (1943)
- Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
- Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
- Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
- James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
- Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
- Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
- Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
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