PASSAGES
Grant Maxwell
 Grant Maxwell Re-Recording Mixer 1958-2006 |
1958-2006
Re-Recording Mixer Grant Maxwell died in Hackensack, New Jersey on
January 3, after an eight-month battle with Leukemia. He was 47.
Maxwell began his audio career at Regent Sound Studios over 25 years
ago. In 1984, he joined the newly established audio post-production
facility Sync Sound, Inc. in New York City. Over the next 21 years,
Maxwell contributed his mixing talents to numerous projects, garnering
three Emmy awards, five Cinema Audio Society Award nominations, and
the respect of his peers.
His impressive list of credits includes feature films, documentaries, TV series, specials and music concerts, including the Tom Fontana Series Oz and Homicide: Life on the Street, the CBS documentary 9/11, Peter Jennings Reporting, Barbara Walters specials and Stephen King’s The Stand.
Along with Maxwell’s remarkable career, he is celebrated as a man who successfully balanced his work and family life. It is a tribute to him that he managed to have a fulfilling personal and professional life.
Maxwell will be long remembered by his friends, co-workers and clients for his loyalty, devotion, hard work and good nature. He is survived by his beloved family: wife Dorothea and sons Dan, 19, and Greg, 14.
Funeral Services were held at St. Patrick’s Church in Chatham, New Jersey on Saturday, January 7. The family is grateful for donations to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, in memory of Grant Maxwell.
Stewart B. Linder
Picture Editor
1931-2006
Picture editor Stu Linder died of a heart attack on January 12, in
Ridgefield, Connecticut, while on location editing, Man of the Year
for Barry Levinson. He was 74.
Linder began his 25-year collaboration with director Levinson on Diner
in 1981. Their other films together include Rain Man (Academy Award
winner for Best Picture), The Natural, Tin Men, Young Sherlock Holmes,
Good Morning Vietnam, Avalon, Bugsy, Disclosure, Sleepers, Wag The
Dog, Liberty Heights, Everlasting Piece and, with co-editor Blair
Daily, Bandits and Envy.
In 1967, Linder received an Academy Award for editing John Frankenheimer’s
Grand Prix with supervising editor Fredric Fritz Steinkamp, and in
1989 received the American Cinema Editors’ (ACE) Eddie Award
and an Oscar and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
nomination for Rain Man.
His other editing credits include The Fortune for Mike Nichols, First
Family for Buck Henry, My Bodyguard and Six Weeks for Tony Bill, Code
Name: Emerald for Jonathan Sanger and Quiz Show for Robert Redford.
Linder began his career at Paramount Pictures in 1955. Among his assistant editor credits are The Misfits, Seconds, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Carnal Knowledge, Catch 22 and Day of the Dolphin.
Linder was born in Geneva, Illinois in 1931 and grew up in Hermosa Beach, California. An Army veteran of the Korean War, he served as an illustrator for the Foreign Language School at Fort Ord, California. Linder, an avid gardener, prolific painter and stained glass and woodcraft artist, was also a well-known surfer and yachtsman.
He is survived by his wife of 24 years, Cathy Fitzpatrick Linder, a former HBO executive; sister-in-law Cynthia Fitzpatrick, an editor; son Stewart; and brother Raymond. Memorial donations are suggested to The California Special Olympics.
In Memoriam
Charles G. Ellison
Assistant Editor
(December 3, 1936 – January 1, 2006)
45 years as a member
Robert L. Harman
Re-Recording Mixer
(February 10, 1939 – January 9, 2006)
40 years as a member
Douglas W. Hines
Picture Editor
(July 20, 1923 – January 16, 2006)
61 years as a member
George R. Hively, ACE
Picture Editor
(April 28, 1933 – February 7, 2006)
50 years as a member
Robert “Buzz” Knudson
Re-Recording Mixer
(September 29, 1925 – January 21, 2006)
60 years as a member of Local 695
Phillip G. Leask
Picture Editor
(November 10, 1934 – December 17, 2005)
39 years as a member
Adam “Chip” Pauken
Picture Editor
(August 16, 1957 – February 2, 2006)
22 years as a member
James Potter
Picture Editor
(September 15, 1927 – December 14, 2005)
52 years as a member
Kenneth S. Stone
Engineer
(March 20, 1939 – November 15, 2005)
35 years as a member
Hebert L. Strock
Picture Editor
(January 13, 1918 – November 30, 2005)
62 years as a member