Randy Thom

Randy Thom

Born: August 21, 1951
in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Randy has been nominated for fifteen Oscars, an Emmy and a Grammy. He has received two Oscars: one for The Right Stuff, and one for The Incredibles. Randy was honored with the C.A.S. Career Achievement Award in 2010 and the MPSE Career Achievement Award in 2014. His career in radio and music recording made the transition to film industry in 1975, when he was hired on Apocalypse Now (1979) as a sound effects recordist.

Movies for Randy Thom...

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Title: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Character: Confetti Cannon (voice)
Released: June 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids. Destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, Ruby must use her newfound powers to protect those she loves most.
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Spies in Disguise
Title: Spies in Disguise
Character: Various Voices / Pigeon Voice (voice)
Released: December 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way.
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Title: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Character: Self
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
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Title: The Meet Arnold Show
Character: Zombie Bear (voice)
Released: February 9, 2019
Type: TV
The Meet Arnold Show
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The Peanuts Movie
Title: The Peanuts Movie
Character: Various Voices (voice)
Released: November 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest.
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
Title: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Character: Toothless (voice)
Released: June 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Five years have passed since Hiccup and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charting unmapped territories. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons -- and a mysterious dragon rider who turns out to be Hiccup's mother, Valka. Hiccup and Toothless then find themselves at the center of a battle to protect Berk from a power-hungry warrior named Drago.
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Rio 2
Title: Rio 2
Character: Logging Foreman (voice)
Released: March 19, 2014
Type: Movie
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
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Epic
Title: Epic
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
Released: May 15, 2013
Type: Movie
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.
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The Croods
Title: The Croods
Character: Sandy Crood (voice)
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk, and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night. When a more evolved caveman named Guy arrives on the scene, Grug is distrustful, but it soon becomes apparent that Guy is correct about the impending destruction of their world.
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Flight
Title: Flight
Character: Radio Stock Market Reporter (voice)
Released: November 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.
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Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
Title: Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: Movie
The cry of gulls. The ticking of a clock. The clatter of a shower curtain, torn from its rod. In this workshop-like documentary, Academy Award-winning sound designers invite you to join them at their mix boards to investigate how Alfred Hitchcock employed sound design to tell his cinematic stories, whether making audience members leap from their seats in fright or crawl under them from excruciating suspense.
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Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Title: Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Alfred Hitchcock often referred to his style of film making as "pure cinema" — using camera movement, editing, music and sound to tell stories that would be impossible in any other medium. This in-depth documentary allows directors such as William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro to examine the power and mastery of Hitchcock's cinematic style.