Moulton, Thomas T., 1896-1967

Five time Academy Award winner for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects and prominent film sound engineer Thomas Truman Moulton was born on January 1, 1896 in Wausau, Wisconsin to Lorene Raffensperger and H. Moulton. He began working in Hollywood, California in the late 1920s or early 1930s, including working on Howard Hughes' Cock of the Air (1932). He won Academy Awards while working on the films The Hurricane (1937), The Cowboy and the Lady (1938), The Snake Pit (1948), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), and All About Eve (1950), and was nominted on numerous other occasions. His most well recognized work was on Gone With the Wind (1939).

Moulton married Eunice M. Blodgett in California on July 19, 1916. The two had a daughter, Adelia M. Moulton in 1917. Moulton died on March 29, 1967 in Fresno, California.

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Genealogy files about "Thomas Truman Moulton." Accessed on November 9, 2021 on FamilySearch.org.

"The Academy Awards". Oscars.Org, Last modified 2021. https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies.