Norman B. Schwartz

NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ, born in Greenwich Village in 1933, spent over forty years working in Hollywood and Rome, as a sound/film editor, eventually becoming a director of feature films in Italy. In Hollywood, he was the first ADR editor and post-production dialogue director ever admitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. He collaborated on the dialogue soundtracks of two Oscar-winning films: The Exorcist and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; worked on films directed by Steven Spielberg, John Huston, Peter Brook, Vittorio De Sica, and Mel Brooks; supervised ADR sessions with Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Richard Burton, Jessica Lange, and Bruce Willis; created vocal effects for the films Predator, Project X, and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.

Norman studied with the famous acting teacher Sanford Meisner; directed acting workshops of Meisner students in Los Angeles; published a study of Stanislavski’s final work in physical action described in Acting is… A String Of Beads; and ACTing Now: A New Approach to the Old Techniques of Acting (Cresting Wave Publishing).