Birth Date: | 8 January 1931 |
Birth Place: | Preston, Lancashire, England |
Death Place: | Exeter, Devon, England |
Occupation: | Audio engineer |
Known For: | Motion picture soundtracks |
Eric Arthur Tomlinson (8 January 1931 in Preston, Lancashire - 24 November 2015 in Exeter, Devon)was an English recording engineer, who recorded and mixed the scores to more than 120 movies.[1]
He had an aeronautical engineering apprenticeshipship at Fairey Aviation, and served in the Royal Air Force.[1] He then began doing small jobs for Radio Luxemburg, and later joined the International Broadcasting Company, where he recorded John Dankworth, Cleo Laine and Ted Heath among others.[1]
At the end of the 1950s, he moved to cinematic recordings, first with Muir Mathieson.[1] He joined Cine-Tele Sound (CTS) Studios in Bayswater in 1959, where some of his first projects were early Bond movies.[1]