PASSAGES
Name
Title
Years
 Ross Taylor Sound Editor September 20, 1923 —June 17, 2007 |
Ross Taylor
Sound Editor
September 20, 1923 – June 17, 2007
Emmy-winning sound editor and Foley artist Ross Taylor died June 17, 2007. He was 83. His company, Edit International Ltd., provided sound effects for numerous feature films and television productions. In 1973, he won an Emmy Award for The Red Pony and a Golden Reel Award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors for The Exorcist. In 1977, he received an Oscar nomination for The Deep.
After service in the US Navy during World War II, Ross began work as a radio announcer and play-by-play sports broadcaster in several stations in the West. Moving to Los Angeles in the early 1950s, he started work in the Sound departments of Hal Roach Studios and Desilu Studios, and worked on the TV series The Untouchables, Ben Casey, Star Trek, Batman and Mission Impossible.
Before his passing in 2003, his former partner Fred Brown said, “I learned all I know about Foley from Ross. I’m convinced he elevated the craft to its current state.”
Ross established a life-long relationship and working collaboration with Kitty Malone, his Foley partner and significant other for 35 years. Together, they created the Foley for many films, including Apocalypse Now, The Deep, Urban Cowboy, Star Wars, The Electric Horseman, Chinatown, 9 to 5 and The China Syndrome.
Besides Malone, he is survived by his children Stephen, Gregory and Merri,
three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
No Services are planned. Donations may be made to the Motion Picture and Television
Fund in memory of Ross Taylor.
 David Kulczycki Sound Editor May 1, 1953 —June 20, 2007 |
David Kulczycki
Sound Editor
May 1, 1953 – June 20, 2007
Sound editor David Kulczycki passed away from a massive heart attack on June 20. Born and raised in a small community surrounded by Detroit, Michigan, called Hamtramck, he attended school there and was awarded a scholarship to the Monthieth School at Wayne State University, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa majoring in journalism and creative writing.
After graduation, Kulczycki became an editor for The Citizen, a newspaper in Hamtramck. He also played guitar in the rock ‘n’ roll band the Romantics. He gave up his guitar to further his education at UCLA in 1978, pursuing a Masters Degree. Foregoing his Masters, he began working part time reading scripts for Paramount Studios, and then soon became an apprentice editor at New Creative Sound. He joined the Motion Picture Editors Guild in 1981.
Kulczycki was also employed at Blue Light and at Stephen J. Cannell Productions, where he worked on Miami Vice and Hunter, the latter show for which he was nominated for an Emmy for sound effects. He continued his career in sound at Acme Sound, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios and, for the last 10 years, at 20th Century Fox Studios.
All told, Kulczycki worked on 59 movies and series, doing sound effects, dialogue, ADR and Foley. A jack-of-all-trades, he was a truly wonderful, talented and creative man. Kulczycki is survived by his wife, Mary, and they were together, happily married, until his death.
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