{{short description|British sound engineer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Tony Dawe | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1940|9|26}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Sound engineer | years_active = 1958-present }}
'''Tony Dawe''' (born 26 September 1940) is a British sound engineer for television and film, born in Maidenhead, Berkshire.<ref>[https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0003360/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_ql_1 Biography, IMDb]</ref>
Since 1958, he has worked on 70 feature films, 18 films made for television, and 340 hours of television drama - including over 40 episodes of ''Special Branch'', all 53 episodes of ''The Sweeney'' and 17 episodes (Series 4 to 7) of ''Inspector Morse''.<ref name=int/> Before joining the film industry at Shepperton Studios in 1967, he worked as an engineer at EMI Abbey Road recording studios in 1958/60. Between 1960 and 1967 he worked for ABC Television at Teddington Studios where he was in charge of the sound dubbing suite. In the 1970s he established his own sound transfer studio, Gemini Sound Services, based in Woking.<ref>[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Studio-Sound/70s/Studio-Sound-1978-01.pdf ''Studio Sound and Broadcast Engineering'', January 1978, p. 84]</ref>
Dawe has worked regularly with the director Tim Burton, starting with the film ''Batman'' in 1987 and continuing until ''Dark Shadows'' (2010), ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'' (2016) and ''Dumbo'' (2019).<ref name=int>[https://matthewtoffolo.com/2016/10/16/interview-with-sound-mixer-tony-dawe-return-of-the-jedi-alice-in-wonderland-troy/ ''Interview with Sound Mixer Tony Dawe'', October 2016], Matthew Toffolo, WildSound</ref> He was the 1989 BAFTA Film Award winner (Best Sound) for ''Empire of the Sun'', and the 1992 winner of the BAFTA TV Award (Best Sound, Fiction) for ''Inspector Morse''. Dawe has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003360/awards/ Tony Dawe Awards, IMDb]</ref>
He has been married to the glass artist Marie Dawe since 1994 and they live in Norfolk.
==Selected filmography== * ''Oliver!'' (1968) * ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983)<ref name="Oscars1984">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |title=The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners |access-date=9 October 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Empire of the Sun'' (1987)<ref name="Oscars1988">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1988 |title=The 60th Academy Awards (1988) Nominees and Winners |access-date=9 October 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' (1988)<ref name="Oscars1989">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |title=The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners |access-date=9 October 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Batman'' (1989) * ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989)<ref name="Oscars1990">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990 |title=The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners |access-date=9 October 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995) * ''The Hours'' (2002) * ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (2004) * Troy (2004) * Dean Spanley (2008) * ''Alice in Wonderland'' (2010) * ''Robin Hood'' (2010) * ''Dumbo'' (2019)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0003360|name=Tony Dawe}}
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