Douglas E. Turner, ‘Deliverance’ and ‘Elephant Man’ Sound Man, Dies at 93
An Emmy winner for ‘The X-Files,’ he also contributed to ‘The Gambler,’ ‘The Return of the Pink Panther,’ ‘Excalibur’ and more.
He was not on the list.
Douglas E. Turner, the British rerecording mixer who worked with John Boorman on Deliverance and four other films and with David Lynch on The Elephant Man, has died. He was 93.
Turner died May 5 at his home in Agua Dulce, California, his wife of 37 years, retired sound editor Justine Turner (Dances With Wolves, Field of Dreams), told The Hollywood Reporter.
His rerecording career spanned 36 years, which included 19 at De Lane Lea Studios in London.
Turner worked on Fox’s The X-Files for two seasons (1995-97)
and received an Emmy in 1996 for mixing “Nisei,” a third-season episode. He
also was nominated in 1989 for the NBC telefilm The Hijacking of the Achille
Lauro and in 1990 for the CBS telefilm Caroline?
Plus, he mixed an Oscar-winning short film, an animated version of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea that was released in 1999.
After the Oscar best picture nominee Deliverance (1972), Turner and Boorman reunited for Zardoz (1974), Excalibur (1981), The Emerald Forest (1985) and The General (1998).
Turner also mixed The Gambler (197) for Karel Reisz, The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) for Blake Edwards, Side by Side (1975) and Puberty Blues (1981) for Bruce Beresford and The Omen (1976) for Richard Donner.
His résumé included Peter Medak’s A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972), David Hemmings’ Running Scared (1972), Ken Russell’s Savage Messiah (1972), Theater of Blood (1973), Gene Wilder’s The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975), Delbert Mann’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1979), James Ivory’s The Europeans (1979), Neil Jordan’s Angel (1982), Michael Mann’s The Keep (1983), John Frankenheimer’s The Fourth War (1990), Lionheart (1990) and Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello (1986).
He also worked on the eighth season (1993-94) of NBC’s L.A. Law.
In addition to his wife — they first met at Cannon Films in 1987 after he arrived from the U.K. to design a mixing stage, became engaged in a month and married within three months — survivors include daughters Sierra Rose and Glynnis, sons Malcolm and Steve and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Sound Department
Revenge (2000)
Revenge
4.5
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
2000
Hemingway: A Portrait (1999)
Hemingway: A Portrait
5.7
Short
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1999
The Witness Files (1999)
The Witness Files
5.4
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1999
The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
The Old Man and the Sea
8.0
Short
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1999
David Carradine, Danny Nucci, and Victoria Sanchez in Sublet
(1998)
Sublet
5.0
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1998
Jon Voight and Brendan Gleeson in The General (1998)
The General
7.2
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1998
Jude Law, Jennifer Tilly, and Gretchen Mol in Music from
Another Room (1998)
Music from Another Room
6.3
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1998
Erika Eleniak, Barry Bostwick, and Brian Wimmer in One Hot
Summer Night (1998)
One Hot Summer Night
4.6
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1998
Calista Flockhart in Ally McBeal (1997)
Ally McBeal
6.9
TV Series
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1997
3 episodes
Millennium (1996)
Millennium
7.9
TV Series
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1996–1997
2 episodes
Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997)
Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy
6.5
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1997
Dana Ashbrook, Nia Peeples, Clifton Collins Jr., Kellie
Martin, Tina Lifford, and Matt Roth in Crisis Center (1997)
Crisis Center
5.5
TV Series
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1997
1 episode
A Nightmare Come True (1997)
A Nightmare Come True
5.3
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1997
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in The X-Files (1993)
The X-Files
8.6
TV Series
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1995–1997
35 episodes
John Ritter and Anna Chlumsky in A Child's Wish (1997)
A Child's Wish
6.6
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1997
Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996)
Alien Nation: The Enemy Within
6.4
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1996
Jennie Garth and Tim Matheson in An Unfinished Affair (1996)
An Unfinished Affair
5.2
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1996
A Stranger to Love (1996)
A Stranger to Love
6.4
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1996
The Other Mother: A Moment of Truth Movie (1995)
The Other Mother: A Moment of Truth Movie
6.4
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1995
The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story (1994)
The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story
7.0
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1994
L.A. Law (1986)
L.A. Law
7.1
TV Series
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1993–1994
20 episodes
Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice
5.1
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1994
Linda Gray and David Lipper in Moment of Truth: Broken
Pledges (1994)
Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges
5.2
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1994
Fairuza Balk and Tim Roth in Murder in the Heartland (1993)
Murder in the Heartland
6.5
TV Mini Series
re-recording mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1993
2 episodes
Maureen Flannigan and Scott Wolf in Teenage Bonnie and
Klepto Clyde (1993)
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
5.6
foley artistre-recording mixer (as Douglas A. Turner)
1993
Sniper (1993)
Sniper
6.1
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1993
Greg Berg, Cam Clarke, Townsend Coleman, Barry Gordon, Rob
Paulsen, and Hal Rayle in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
7.9
TV Series
sound mixer (as Doug Turner)
1992
16 episodes
Kill Fee (1992)
Kill Fee
5.1
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1992
Hit the Dutchman (1992)
Hit the Dutchman
5.5
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1992
Penelope Ann Miller and Tim Daly in Year of the Comet (1992)
Year of the Comet
5.8
re-recording mixer
1992
Stay the Night (1992)
Stay the Night
6.5
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1992
Anthony Michael Hall and Michael Paré in Into the Sun (1991)
Into the Sun
5.1
re-recording mixer
1991
The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
The Crucifer of Blood
5.6
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1991
The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991)
The Rape of Doctor Willis
5.6
TV Movie
re-recording mixer
1991
Ken Wahl in The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991)
The Taking of Beverly Hills
5.1
re-recording mixer (as Douglas A. Turner)
1991
Little Dracula (1991)
Little Dracula
6.1
TV Series
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner, 1991)
1991
Elizabeth Montgomery and Dale Midkiff in Sins of the Mother
(1991)
Sins of the Mother
6.4
TV Movie
re-recording mixer
1991
Anne Archer and Donald Sutherland in Eminent Domain (1990)
Eminent Domain
5.9
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1990
Graveyard Shift (1990)
Graveyard Shift
5.0
re-recording mixer (as Douglas E. Turner)
1990
Jean-Claude Van Damme in Lionheart (1990)
Lionheart
6.2
re-recording mixer
1990
Caroline? (1990)
Caroline?
7.2
TV Movie
re-recording mixer (as Dory Turner)
1990
Jürgen Prochnow and Roy Scheider in The Fourth War (1990)
The Fourth War
5.5
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1990
Keshia Knight Pulliam in A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court (1989)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
4.6
TV Movie
re-recording mixer
1989
Kelly McGillis and Peter Weller in Cat Chaser (1989)
Cat Chaser
5.2
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1989
Hider in the House (1989)
Hider in the House
5.9
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1989
Society (1989)
Society
6.5
re-recording mixer
1989
Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas, Louis Jourdan, and Joey
Sagal in The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
The Return of Swamp Thing
4.7
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1989
Gor II (1988)
Gor II
2.4
re-recording mixer: second unit post-production (as Doug
Turner)
1988
Bloody New Year (1987)
Bloody New Year
4.5
dubbing mixersound recordist (as Doug Turner)
1987
Plácido Domingo in Otello (1986)
Otello
6.9
re-recording mixer
1986
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Judi Trott in Reunion at
Fairborough (1985)
Reunion at Fairborough
6.6
TV Movie
sound recordist (as Doug Turner)
1985
The Keep (1983)
The Keep
5.7
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1983
Angel (1982)
Angel
6.3
dubbing mixer
1982
Bad Blood (1981)
Bad Blood
6.5
dubbing mixerre-recording mixer (as Doug Turner, uncredited)
1981
Puberty Blues (1981)
Puberty Blues
5.9
re-recording mixer
1981
Sylvia Kristel and Nicholas Clay in Lady Chatterley's Lover
(1981)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
5.1
dubbing mixer (uncredited)
1981
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
Memoirs of a Survivor
5.4
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1981
Excalibur (1981)
Excalibur
7.3
sound mixer (as Doug Turner)
1981
Jack Palance, Bernard Bresslaw, Ray Charleson, Warren
Clarke, Catriona MacColl, Patricia Quinn, William Morgan Sheppard, and John
Terry in Hawk the Slayer (1980)
Hawk the Slayer
5.3
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1980
John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)
The Elephant Man
8.2
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1980
Brothers and Sisters (1980)
Brothers and Sisters
5.8
sound mixer (as Doug Turner)
1980
Bill Haley in Blue Suede Shoes (1980)
Blue Suede Shoes
6.9
dubbing mixersound supervisor (as Doug Turner)
1980
B.C. Rock (1980)
B.C. Rock
5.9
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1980
Phil Daniels and Hazel O'Connor in Breaking Glass (1980)
Breaking Glass
6.8
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1980
The Hard Way (1980)
The Hard Way
6.5
TV Movie
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1980
The Godsend (1980)
The Godsend
5.3
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1980
Beyond the Reef (1979)
Beyond the Reef
4.8
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1979
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
All Quiet on the Western Front
7.1
TV Movie
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1979
The Magician of Lublin (1979)
The Magician of Lublin
5.8
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1979
The Europeans (1979)
The Europeans
6.1
sound re-recording engineer (as Doug Turner)
1979
Simon Adams, Leslie Phillips, Beth Porter, Victor Spinetti,
Rachel Warren, Reg Williams, Susan Sokol, and Lisa Moss in The Lion, the Witch
& the Wardrobe (1979)
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
7.0
TV Movie
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1979
The Detour (1979)
The Detour
Short
re-recording mixer
1979
Kabir Bedi and Daniel Emilfork in The Thief of Baghdad
(1978)
The Thief of Baghdad
5.8
TV Movie
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1978
David Bowie and Kim Novak in Just a Gigolo (1978)
Just a Gigolo
5.4
re-recording mixer
1978
The Odd Job (1978)
The Odd Job
6.3
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1978
My Way Home (1978)
My Way Home
7.4
dubbing mixer
1978
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Force 10 from Navarone
6.4
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1978
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Revenge of the Pink Panther
6.6
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1978
The Four Feathers (1978)
The Four Feathers
6.4
TV Movie
dubbing mixer
1978
What's Up Nurse! (1977)
What's Up Nurse!
4.3
dubbing director (as Doug Turner)
1977
Prey (1977)
Prey
5.3
dubbing mixer
1977
Silver Bears (1977)
Silver Bears
6.0
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1977
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
6.4
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1977
Fern, the Red Deer (1977)
Fern, the Red Deer
6.6
sound (as Doug Turner)
1977
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Voyage of the Damned
6.4
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1976
The Arrival of Joachim Stiller (1976)
The Arrival of Joachim Stiller
7.4
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1976
Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, and Harvey Stephens in The Omen
(1976)
The Omen
7.5
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1976
A Dirty Knight's Work (1976)
A Dirty Knight's Work
5.1
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1976
Diversions
6.0
dubbing director (as Doug Turner)
1976
Side by Side (1975)
Side by Side
6.0
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1975
Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, and Madeline Kahn in The
Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
6.0
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1975
Peter Denyer, Freddie Jones, and Peter Noone in Never Too
Young to Rock (1975)
Never Too Young to Rock
5.3
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1975
Operation Daybreak (1975)
Operation Daybreak
7.0
sound mixer (as Doug Turner)
1975
Requiem for a Village (1975)
Requiem for a Village
6.7
re-recording mixer
1975
Lifespan (1975)
Lifespan
5.7
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1975
Sam and the River (1975)
Sam and the River
7.0
TV Series
re-recording mixer
1975
6 episodes
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The Return of the Pink Panther
7.0
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1975
Rosebud (1975)
Rosebud
5.2
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1975
The Great McGonagall (1975)
The Great McGonagall
4.8
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1975
The God King (1974)
The God King
7.7
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1974
Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1974)
Can You Keep It Up for a Week?
4.5
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1974
James Caan in The Gambler (1974)
The Gambler
7.1
sound re-recordist (as Doug Turner)
1974
Sue Longhurst and Linda Regan in Keep It Up, Jack (1974)
Keep It Up, Jack
3.7
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1974
S*P*Y*S (1974)
S*P*Y*S
4.5
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1974
Larry Dann, Marianne Faithfull, Vivian MacKerrell, Murray
Melvin, and Barbara Shelley in Ghost Story (1974)
Ghost Story
4.9
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1974
Sean Connery in Zardoz (1974)
Zardoz
5.8
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1974
John Phillip Law and Caroline Munro in The Golden Voyage of
Sinbad (1973)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
6.8
sound recordist (as Doug Turner)
1973
My Ain Folk (1973)
My Ain Folk
7.5
dubbing mixer
1973
Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Paul Scofield, and Anna
Calder-Marshall in ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969)
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
6.0
TV Series
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1973
1 episode
David Hockney in A Bigger Splash (1973)
A Bigger Splash
5.8
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1973
Brendan Price in Naughty Wives (1973)
Naughty Wives
4.5
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1973
The Blockhouse (1973)
The Blockhouse
5.8
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1973
Malcolm McDowell in O Lucky Man! (1973)
O Lucky Man!
7.6
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1973
Charley-One-Eye (1973)
Charley-One-Eye
5.9
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1973
Vincent Price and Diana Rigg in Theater of Blood (1973)
Theater of Blood
7.1
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1973
The Call of the Wild (1972)
The Call of the Wild
5.9
sound mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1972
Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon, and Glenda Jackson in The Triple
Echo (1972)
The Triple Echo
6.4
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1972
Deliverance (1972)
Deliverance
7.6
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1972
Savage Messiah (1972)
Savage Messiah
6.9
dubbing mixer (as Doug. Turner)
1972
Alan Bates and Janet Suzman in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
(1972)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
6.7
sound re-recordist (as Doug Turner)
1972
Beware My Brethren (1972)
Beware My Brethren
5.3
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1972
Donovan in The Pied Piper (1972)
The Pied Piper
6.3
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1972
Susannah York in Images (1972)
Images
7.0
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1972
Running Scared (1972)
Running Scared
7.4
sound mixer (as Doug Turner)
1972
Embassy (1972)
Embassy
5.0
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1972
Gumshoe (1971)
Gumshoe
6.4
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1971
Richard Harris in Man in the Wilderness (1971)
Man in the Wilderness
6.8
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1971
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Peter O'Toole in Under
Milk Wood (1971)
Under Milk Wood
5.8
re-recording mixer (uncredited)
1971
Romance of a Horsethief (1971)
Romance of a Horsethief
5.0
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1971
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
7.0
sound mixer (as Doug Turner)
1971
A Hole Lot of Trouble (1971)
A Hole Lot of Trouble
4.6
Short
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1971
David Niven, Robert Vaughn, Ann Bell, and Virna Lisi in The
Statue (1971)
The Statue
4.7
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1971
Jenny Agutter in I Start Counting (1970)
I Start Counting
6.9
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1970
Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)
Entertaining Mr Sloane
6.4
dubbed by (as Douglas Turner)
1970
With Love in Mind
re-recording mixer
1970
The Buttercup Chain (1970)
The Buttercup Chain
5.2
sound recordist (as Doug Turner)
1970
Jimmy Edwards in Rhubarb (1970)
Rhubarb
5.7
Short
re-recording mixer
1970
The Executioner (1970)
The Executioner
6.0
dubbing mixer (uncredited)
1970
James Mason, Susan George, Rodney Bewes, Diana Coupland,
Hannah Gordon, and Len Jones in Spring and Port Wine (1970)
Spring and Port Wine
7.0
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1970
Charles Bronson and Susan George in London Affair (1970)
London Affair
5.2
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1970
Because That Road Is Trodden (1969)
Because That Road Is Trodden
5.3
Short
sound supervisor (as Doug Turner)
1969
A Nice Girl Like Me (1969)
A Nice Girl Like Me
5.7
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1969
Arthur? Arthur! (1969)
Arthur? Arthur!
5.6
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1969
The Big Dig (1969)
The Big Dig
7.6
re-recording mixer
1969
The Last Shot You Hear (1969)
The Last Shot You Hear
5.2
dubbing mixer (uncredited)
1969
James Mason in The London Nobody Knows (1968)
Les bicyclettes de Belsize
6.6
Short
sound recordist (as Doug Turner)
1968
The Pale Faced Girl (1968)
The Pale Faced Girl
4.6
Short
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1968
Last of the Long-haired Boys
8.0
sound mixer
1968
Michael Jannie in Gold Is Where You Find It (1968)
Gold Is Where You Find It
5.7
Short
dubbing mixer (as Douglas Turner)
1968
If.... (1968)
If....
7.4
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1968
The Strange Affair (1968)
The Strange Affair
6.3
sound mixer (as Doug Turner)
1968
Only When I Larf (1968)
Only When I Larf
5.9
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1968
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
6.2
re-recording mixer (as Doug Turner)
1968
Raquel Welch and Dudley Moore in Bedazzled (1967)
Bedazzled
6.7
sound mixer (as Doug. Turner)
1967
Gabriella Licudi in Herostratus (1967)
Herostratus
6.7
dubbing mixer (as Doug Turner)
1967
Turkey the Bridge (1966)
Turkey the Bridge
6.7
Short
sound
1966
Mel Ferrer and Rosanna Schiaffino in El Greco (1966)
El Greco
6.2
sound department
1966
Fragment (1965)
Fragment
5.6
Short
sound mixer (as Doug Turner)
1965
I Think They Call Him John (1964)
I Think They Call Him John
6.9
Short
sound recording
1964
Just for You (1964)
Just for You
5.6
sound (as Doug Turner)
1964
It's All Over Town (1964)
It's All Over Town
5.3
sound department (as Douglas Turner)
1964
Additional Crew
Black Jack (1979)
Black Jack
6.7
this film was also made by (as Doug Turner)
1979
Thanks
Small Town Killing (2010)
Small Town Killing
7.7
special thanks
2010
Kathy Ireland in Alien from L.A. (1988)
Alien from L.A.
3.2
special thanks (as Doug Turner)
1988
Self
RKO Production 601: The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder
of the World' (2005)
RKO Production 601: The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder
of the World'
8.5
Video
Self (as Doug Turner)
2005

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