John P. Livadary Explained

John P. Livadary
Birth Date:	20 May 1896
Birth Place:	Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:	Newport Beach, California, United States
Occupation:	Sound engineer
Yearsactive:	1929–1960

John Paul Livadary (born 20 May 1896, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, died 7 April 1987, Newport Beach, California, USA) was a sound designer.

He started work in 1928 at Columbia Pictures and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing three times and was nominated another 14 times, in a career that spanned 30 years. The first Oscar was for One Night of Love (1934),^[1] the second for The Jolson Story (1946)^[2] and the third for From Here to Eternity (1953).^{[3] [4]} He also won the Academy Award for Technical Achievement three times (shared twice) and the Academy Scientific and Technical Award once (shared).

Partial filmography

• Broadway Scandals (1929)
• The Song of Love (1929)
• Flight (1929)
• Acquitted (1929)
• The Broadway Hoofer (1929)
• Wall Street (1929)
• Around the Corner (1930)
• Soldiers and Women (1930)
• Hell's Island (1930)
• Ladies Must Play (1930)
• Shadow Ranch (1930)
• Hurricane (1930)
• Men Without Law (1930)
• Dirigible (1931)
• One Night of Love (1934)
• Love Me Forever (1935)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Too Many Husbands (1940)
• The Jolson Story (1946)
• The Brave Bulls (1951)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954)
• Pushover (1954)
• Human Desire (1954)
• The Black Dakotas (1954)
• Three Hours to Kill (1954)
• Cannibal Attack (1954)
• Phffft (1954)
• The Violent Men (1955)
• Masterson of Kansas (1955)
• The Bamboo Prison (1955)
• Ten Wanted Men (1955)
• The Long Gray Line (1955)
• Women's Prison (1955)
• Pirates of Tripoli (1955)
• Wyoming Renegades (1955)
• Three for the Show (1955)
• Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)
• Seminole Uprising (1955)
• Tight Spot (1955)
• 5 Against the House (1955)
• Bring Your Smile Along (1955)
• The Man from Laramie (1955)
• My Sister Eileen (1955)
• Count Three and Pray (1955)
• Queen Bee (1955)
• A Lawless Street (1955)
• Picnic (1955)
• The Last Frontier (1956)
• Battle Stations (1956)
• Hot Blood (1956)
• The Harder They Fall (1956)
• Jubal (1956)
• The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
• Autumn Leaves (1956)
• He Laughed Last (1956)
• Storm Center (1956)
• The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
• Reprisal! (1956)
• You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
• Full of Life (1957)
• Nightfall (1957)
• The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
• The Garment Jungle (1957)
• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
• Jeanne Eagels (1957)
• The Brothers Rico (1957)
• Decision at Sundown (1957)
• Operation Mad Ball (1957)
• Pal Joey (1957)
• Going Steady (1958)
• Cowboy (1958)
• Screaming Mimi (1958)
• The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)
• The Lineup (1958)
• Life Begins at 17 (1958)
• Gunman's Walk (1958)
• Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
• Ghost of the China Sea (1958)
• Apache Territory (1958)
• Me and the Colonel (1958)
• The Last Hurrah (1958)
• Tarawa Beachhead (1958)
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
• Bell, Book and Candle (1959)
• Senior Prom (1959)
• Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
• Ride Lonesome (1959)
• Gunmen from Laredo (1959)
• Forbidden Island (1959)
• Juke Box Rhythm (1959)
• Gidget (1959)
• Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (1959)
• Face of a Fugitive (1959)
• It Happened to Jane (1959)
• The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
• Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)
• The Crimson Kimono (1959)
• The Tingler (1959)
• They Came to Cordura (1959)
• Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
• The Last Angry Man (1959)
• The Flying Fontaines (1959)
• Edge of Eternity (1959)
• 1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
• Comanche Station (1960)
• The Mountain Road (1960)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners . 2011-08-07. oscars.org.
2. Web site: The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners . 2011-08-19. oscars.org.
3. Web site: The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners . 2011-08-20. oscars.org.
4. Pushing the Envelope... . Selise Eiseman . Editors Guild Magazine . March–April 2006 . 27 . 2 . 2009-06-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160129130622/http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/0306/features_article02.htm . 2016-01-29 .