Richard Beggs

{{short description|American sound designer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Richard Beggs | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=y|1942|1|8}} | birth_place = San Francisco, California, United States | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Sound designer | years_active = 1979–present }}

'''Richard Beggs''' (born January 8, 1942) is an American sound designer who has worked on more than 70 films since 1979. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film ''Apocalypse Now''.<ref name="Oscars1980">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1980 |title=The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners |access-date=October 7, 2011|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}</ref> a TEC Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Film Sound, and has received seven Golden Reel Award sound nominations. He has designed sound for Sofia Coppola's films ''The Virgin Suicides'', ''Lost In Translation'', ''Marie Antoinette'', ''Somewhere'', ''The Bling Ring'' and ''The Beguiled''. His other sound design credits include ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'', ''The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''; ''Children of Men'', ''Adaptation'', ''The Godfather Part III'', ''Palo Alto'', ''Bugsy'', ''Rain Man'', and ''Ghostbusters''.

Richard has taught film sound at the California College of the Arts, is an associate fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University, and sat on the board of directors of the San Francisco Arts Education Project (1986–2013).

==Selected filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979) * ''The Outsiders'' (1983) * ''Rumble Fish'' (1983) * ''Repo Man'' (1984) * ''Ghostbusters'' (1984) * ''The Cotton Club'' (1984) * ''Walker'' (1987) * ''Rain Man'' (1988) * ''Cry-Baby'' (1990) * ''Avalon'' (1990) * ''The Godfather Part III'' (1990) * ''Bugsy'' (1991) * ''Toys'' (1992) * ''Strange Days'' (1995) * ''Three Businessmen'' (1998) * ''The Virgin Suicides'' (1998) * ''Lost In Translation'' (2003) * ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' (2004) * ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (2004) * ''Marie Antoinette'' (2006) * ''Children of Men'' (2006) * ''Searchers 2.0'' (2007) * ''The Bling Ring'' (2013) * ''Palo Alto'' (2013) * ''The Beguiled'' (2017) * ''On The Rocks'' (2020) * ''Mad God'' (2021) {{Div col end}}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0066740|name=Richard Beggs}}

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