Ben Burtt

Benjamin Ben Burtt Jr is a sound designer film editor director screenwriter and voice actor He has worked as sound designer on various films including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series ET the ExtraTerrestrial WALLE and Star Trek He is responsible for creating many of the iconic sound effects heard in the Star Wars film franchise including the binary speech of R2D2 the lightsaber hum the sound of the blaster guns and the heavybreathing sound of Darth Vader which he made by breathing into a scuba regulator Burtt has a reputation for popularizing a sound effect dubbed the Wilhelm scream which was taken from a character named Wilhelm in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River