Known for Sound
Dan Sable (January 28, 1930 – December 21, 2025) was an American sound editor born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied music at Ohio State University, earning a master's degree in composition, and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before beginning a career in film sound in New York. In 1979 he founded Hastings Sound Editorial, and he became an early adopter of digital sound editing. His work includes many films by Woody Allen and Brian De Palma, among them Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and The Untouchables, as well as Dirty Dancing, Something Wild, A Bronx Tale and Dead Man Walking. He retired in 2000.
Born
January 28, 1930
Died
December 21, 2025 (age 95)
Birthplace
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Filmography
52 films, 1 show


Picture Perfect
1997 · 1h 45m · US
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.


In the Gloaming
1997 · 1h 1m · US
Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.


Dead Man Walking
1995 · 2h 2m · US
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.


Mixed Nuts
1994 · 1h 37m · US
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.


A Bronx Tale
1993 · 2h 1m · US
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.


The Night We Never Met
1993 · 1h 39m · US
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.


Billy Bathgate
1991 · 1h 46m · US
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.


Miami Blues
1990 · 1h 37m · US
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.


She-Devil
1989 · 1h 39m · US
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.


An Innocent Man
1989 · 1h 53m · US
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.


Dirty Dancing
1987 · 1h 40m · US
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.


The Untouchables
1987 · 1h 59m · US
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.


Something Wild
1986 · 1h 54m · US
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.


The Little Drummer Girl
1984 · 2h 10m · US
An American actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.


Broadway Danny Rose
1984 · 1h 24m · US
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.


Star 80
1983 · 1h 43m · US
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed out of the picture by more famous men.


Zelig
1983 · 1h 19m · US
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.


A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982 · 1h 28m · US
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.


Blow Out
1981 · 1h 48m · US
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.


Eyewitness
1981 · 1h 43m · US
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.


Dressed to Kill
1980 · 1h 45m · US
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.