Douglas E. Turner, the British rerecording mixer who labored with John Boorman on Deliverance and 4 different movies and with David Lynch on The Elephant Man, has died. He was 93.
Turner died Might 5 at his house in Agua Dulce, California, his spouse of 37 years, retired sound editor Justine Turner (Dances With Wolves, Subject of Goals), informed The Hollywood Reporter.
His rerecording profession spanned 36 years, which included 19 at De Lane Lea Studios in London.
Turner labored on Fox’s The X-Information for 2 seasons (1995-97) and obtained an Emmy in 1996 for mixing “Nisei,” a third-season episode. He additionally was nominated in 1989 for the NBC telefilm The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro and in 1990 for the CBS telefilm Caroline?
Plus, he combined an Oscar-winning quick movie, an animated model of Hemingway’s The Outdated Man and the Sea that was launched in 1999.
After the Oscar greatest image nominee Deliverance (1972), Turner and Boorman reunited for Zardoz (1974), Excalibur (1981), The Emerald Forest (1985) and The Normal (1998).
Turner additionally combined The Gambler (197) for Karel Reisz, The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) for Blake Edwards, Facet by Facet (1975) and Puberty Blues (1981) for Bruce Beresford and The Omen (1976) for Richard Donner.
His résumé included Peter Medak’s A Day within the Demise of Joe Egg (1972), David Hemmings’ Operating Scared (1972), Ken Russell’s Savage Messiah (1972), Theater of Blood (1973), Gene Wilder’s The Journey of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975), Delbert Mann’s All Quiet on the Western Entrance (1979), James Ivory’s The Europeans (1979), Neil Jordan’s Angel (1982), Michael Mann’s The Preserve (1983), John Frankenheimer’s The Fourth Conflict (1990), Lionheart (1990) and Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello (1986).
He additionally labored on the eighth season (1993-94) of NBC’s L.A. Regulation.
Along with his spouse — they first met at Cannon Movies in 1987 after he arrived from the U.Ok. to design a mixing stage, grew to become engaged in a month and married inside three months — survivors embrace daughters Sierra Rose and Glynnis, sons Malcolm and Steve and several other grandchildren and great-grandchildren.