Treg Brown

Treg Brown
Born	Tregoweth Edmond Brown (1899-11-04)November 4, 1899 Gilbert, Minnesota, USA
Died	April 28, 1984(1984-04-28) (aged 84) Irvine, California, USA
Occupation	Sound editor
Years active	1932–1983
Known for	Discovering voice actor Mel Blanc

Tregoweth Edmond "Treg" Brown (November 4, 1899 in Gilbert, Minnesota, USA – April 28, 1984) was a motion picture sound editor who was responsible for the sound effects in Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons starting in 1936.^[1] Before that, he worked with Cecil B. DeMille. Adding to this, he also gave legendary Warner voice actor Mel Blanc his big break. He also won the 1965 Academy Award for Sound Effects for his work on the film The Great Race.^[1]

In the famous Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955), the skyscraper into which Michigan J. Frog is entombed is named the "Tregoweth Brown Building".

Filmography

The Bugs n' Daffy Show
Devil May Hare
Zip Zip Hooray!
Freudy Cat
Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare
One Froggy Evening

References

1 2 Moody, Gary. "All the Oscars: 1965". All the Oscars. Retrieved 2007-09-29.

External links

Treg Brown at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Award for Best Sound Editing

Sound Effects 1963–1967	Walter Elliott (1963) Norman Wanstall (1964) Treg Brown (1965) Gordon Daniel (1966) John Poyner (1967)

1968–1981	none were given from 1968-1981, except a few special achievements, in the years 1975, 1977, 1979, and 1981

Sound Effects Editing 1982–1999	Ben Burtt and Charles L. Campbell (1982) Jay Boekelheide (1983) Special Achievement Academy Award (1984) Charles L. Campbell and Robert Rutledge (1985) Don Sharpe (1986) 1987: Special Achievement Academy Award (1987) Charles L. Campbell and Louis Edemann (1988) Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns (1989) Cecelia Hall and George Watters II (1990) Gloria Borders and Gary Rydstrom (1991) Tom McCarthy and David E. Stone (1992) Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom (1993) Stephen Hunter Flick (1994) Lon Bender and Per Hallberg (1995) Bruce Stambler (1996) Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes (1997) Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom (1998) Dane Davis (1999)

Sound Editing 2000–present	Jon Johnson (2000) Christopher Boyes and George Watters II (2001) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn (2002) Richard King (2003) Michael Silvers and Randy Thom (2004) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn (2005) Bub Asman and Alan Robert Murray (2006) Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers (2007) Richard King (2008) Paul N. J. Ottosson (2009) Richard King (2010) Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton (2011) Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers/Paul N. J. Ottosson (2012) Glenn Freemantle (2013) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman (2014) Mark Mangini and David White (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 29088180 LCCN: no89006194

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