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It was his skill behind the console, recording and mixing musical scores for movies and TV, that won him legions of fans among nearly all of Hollywood's top composers and ensured steady employment for more than half a century.

He had worked on more than 500 films since 1965, working into his eighties.

Wallin is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest sound engineers of all time.

His television credits included multiple Emmy winners "Roots," "Eleanor and Franklin," "The Day After," "Lonesome Dove" and "Lost.".

Dan Wallin joined Warner Bros. in 1965 and became the studio's in-house music engineer, choosing and placing microphones-often dozens of them, capturing the sound of individual musicians and then balancing the sound of 70 or 80 of them at million-dollar mixing boards - for such composers as Alex North, Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, Bill Conti, David Shire, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini and John Williams.

Dan Wallin was an American sound engineer. He even recorded the gunshots for Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, including "The Wild Bunch" and "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.".

He contributed on 17 films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf? (1966), Gangster Story (1967), Nashville (1975), Taxi Driver (1976), Tutti gli uomini del presidente (1976), Questa terra è la mia terra (1976), Una donna tutta sola (1978), Gente comune (1980), Uomini veri (1983), Voglia di tenerezza (1983), La mia Africa (1985), L'onore dei Prizzi (1985), Figli di un dio minore (1986), Turista per caso (1988), Il fuggitivo (1993), Insider - Dietro la verità (1999) and Up (2009). Of those, Gente comune (1980), Voglia di tenerezza (1983) and La mia Africa (1985) are winners in the category.

After the war, he worked in live radio, handling big-band remotes from popular L.A. venues for CBS, and then moved to television, working at KTLA in the 1950s.

He won a 2009 Emmy for sound mixing on the Academy Awards telecast and received two additional Emmy nominations in the sound mixing category (1992's "Citizen Cohn," 1996's "Gotti").

Wallin grew up in a Van Nuys orphanage, learned to play drums, and later served as a Navy aviation radio operator during World War II.

He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. (1970's "Woodstock" and 1976's "A Star Is Born").