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Leo Chaloukian, Emmy Award-Winning Sound Designer and Former TV Academy President, Dies at 97
Former Television Academy president Leo Chaloukian designed the sound for shows like "Lassie" and films like "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Leo Chaloukian, a multi-Emmy Award-winning sound designer and former chair of the Television Academy, died July 18. The company also contributed to the recording, rerecording and mixing for “Love Story,” “The Godfather,” “Chinatown,” “Saturday Night Fever” and the first Star Trek movies, as well as “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Tootsie” and “The Killing Fields.” Chaloukian sold Ryder to Soundelux Entertainment Group and became the company’s senior vice president in 1997 before serving on the Motion Picture Academy Board in 1970.
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