Matthew Wood (sound editor)


Matthew Russell Wood is an American sound editor and voice actor. For the last 28 years, he has worked on numerous film projects, his work being credited as sound editing and sound design. He has been an innovative force within the industry, pioneering new technologies for motion pictures. He is a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California. He also voices General Grievous in ', ' and various video games.

Career

Starting at Lucasfilm as a game tester at LucasArts, Wood then moved to the company's sound department and worked on all three films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy as supervising sound editor and also did an uncredited acting role in ' as Bib Fortuna and the voice of Ody Mandrell. In ', he played Seboca and Magaloof. In ', in addition to a brief appearance as Orn Free Taa, Wood plays the voice role of General Grievous, a role originated by voice actors John DiMaggio and Richard McGonagle in the series '. In the film, he dubbed the voice of stuntman Kyle Rowling, who played General Grievous utilizing motion capture.
He would later come back to work with the Star Wars expanded universe. He reprised his voice role of General Grievous in General Grievous Halloween audiocast as well as all video game appearances of Grievous with the exception of ' where Grievous was played by David W. Collins. He reprised his role as General Grievous and the battle droids in the ' film and associated. In the series, he once again voiced Grievous as well as Wat Tambor, HELIOS-3D, senate guards, the battle droids and Poggle the Lesser. He provided the voice of RO-GR/Roger, a reprogrammed battle droid in '.
He has received five Academy Award nominations for Sound Editing: for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood at the 80th Academy Awards, for the Pixar sci-fi film WALL-E at the 81st Academy Awards, for ' at the 88th Academy Awards, for ' at the 90th Academy Awards, and for ' at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Wood made an appearance in Adult Swim's Robot Chicken in 2008.

Filmography

Sound editing

Voice acting

Film

Television

Video games