# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-burtt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:24:20.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-burtt"
name: "Ben Burtt"
slug: "ben-burtt"
description: "Benjamin Burtt Jr. is an American sound designer, film director, film editor, screenwriter, and voice actor. As a sound designer, his credits include the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), WALL-E (2008), and Star Trek (2009)."
tagline: "American sound designer and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Burtt_Celebration_Europe_II.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.52
  momentum:             3.58064936758378
  historical:           19.37494
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 245
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123785/"
    handle:    "nm0123785"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بێن بێرت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt"
    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt"
    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بن برت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ベン・バート"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt"
    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt"
    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt"
    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt"
    title: "Ben Burtt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бёртт, Бен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816456"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump