Known for Sound
Walter Newman is the Supervising Sound Editor at Warner Bros. Pictures. He’s won five Emmy Awards as a supervising sound editor, four for ER (including three consecutively, 1998-2000) and one for Third Watch. He’s been nominated a total of 18 times, all but once as a supervising sound editor (the exception: effects mixer for ER), most recently for AMC’s The Walking Dead in 2011. A graduate of Hollywood High and Cal State Northridge, Newman started working in the Warner Bros. post-production sound department in 1979, when the lot was known as The Burbank Studios, and has been there ever since, moving up the sonic career ladder.
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Filmography
15 films, 3 shows


The Road to Wellville
1994 · 1h 58m
country: United States
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick
1992 · 23m
country: United States
An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their idea of the "perfect man." One day, their wish comes true when a seemingly perfect man named Darryl Van Horne moves into town and sweeps them off their feet by making all their dreams come true. However, they soon realize that "perfect" isn't exactly the best word to describe their devilish new man after strange and unexplainable incidents begin occurring. The pilot was inspired by both John Updike's original novel and the 1987 movie that followed.


Die Hard 2
1990 · 2h 4m
country: United States
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.


Lethal Weapon 2
1989 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.


Scrooged
1988 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.


The Dead Pool
1988 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late.


Bird
1988 · 2h 41m
country: United States
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.


Out of Bounds
1986 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.