Edmund H. Hansen

Date of birth : 11/12/1894

Date of death : 10/10/1962

City of birth : Springfield, Illinois, USA

Edmund H. Hansen was appointed as head of the Sound Department of Fox Films and retained that position when the studio changed into 20th Century-Fox. In his capacity as a sound director he was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won two, for Special Sound Effects on The Rains Came (1939) and Sound Recording for Wilson (1944).