FRANK WARNER - Oscar-Winning Sound Editor for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Film sound designer and editor Frank Warner, who earned a special Academy Award for his work on 1977’s "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", died in Sedona, Arizona, on August 31, 2011.  He was 85.  Warner was born in Los Angeles in 1926.  He worked with the Armed Forces Radio in China as a U.S. Marine during World War II.  He began working for CBS Network Radio after the war, and became an editor for film and television in the early 1950s. He worked on the television series "Dragnet" throughout the decade, and was a sound editor for the series "Honey West" and "I Spy" in the 1960s. He was sound editor for numerous films during his career including "Hour of the Gun" (1967), "The Scalphunters" (1968), "Hell in the Pacific" (1968), "They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!" (1970), "Little Big Man" (1970), "Kotch" (1971), "Harold and Maude" (1971), "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (1973), "Mr. Majestyk" (1974), "The Trial of Billy Jack" (1974), "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Murder By Death" (1976), Steven Spielberg’s "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "Coming Home" (1978), "Goin’ South" (1979), "Being There" (1979), "Raging Bull" (1980), "True Confessions" (1981), "The King of Comedy" (1982), "Barbarosa" (1982), "Rocky III" (1982), "Iceman" (1984), "St. Elmo’s Fire" (1985), "Roxanne" (1987), "Hot to Trot" (1988), and "Everbody’s All-American" (1988).  Warner received the lifetime achievement award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors in 1988, and retired the following year.