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name: "Murray Spivack"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/murray-spivack"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "6 September 1903"
died: "8 May 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T12:14:04.397324+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Murray Spivack

Composer. Born 6 September 1903 in Rusia. Died 8 May 1994.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 6 September 1903, Rusia
- **Died:** 8 May 1994

## Biography

Murray Spivack (1903–1994) was a Russian-born American sound engineer and music mixer who worked in Hollywood for more than four decades. He began his career as a professional drummer in New York before moving to Los Angeles in 1929, where he headed the sound-effects department at RKO and later worked extensively at 20th Century Fox.

Spivack is best known for creating the sound effects for *King Kong* (1933) and for his contributions as a scoring mixer or sound recordist on numerous films, including *Laura* (1944), *Spartacus* (1960), *West Side Story* (1961), *My Fair Lady* (1964), *The Sound of Music* (1965) and *Patton* (1970). He shared an Academy Award for Best Sound for *Hello, Dolly!* (1969) and received a further nomination for *Tora! Tora! Tora!* (1970). He was also a noted percussion teacher whose students included Louie Bellson, Joe Morello and David Garibaldi.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Laura* (1944), Fi1m 86, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/laura.md)

## Also known for

- *The Sound of Music* (1965), Sound — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sound-of-music.md)
- *Spartacus* (1960), Sound Designer
- *West Side Story* (1961), Sound
- *King Kong* (1933), Sound Effects
- *My Fair Lady* (1964), Sound
- *Patton* (1970), Sound Re-Recording Mixer — [page](https://film.one/film/patton.md)
- *Cleopatra* (1963), Sound Recordist
- *Tora! Tora! Tora!* (1970), Sound Recordist

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